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Joseph A. Altsheler

The Candidate

Name: The Candidate
Brand: Polyglot Publishing
SKU: bce1d686-ca35-f298-bf39-3ad3f16a7657-tr-en
Price: 46.99 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Joseph A. Altsheler

Original publication: 1905
Bilingual edition: June 12, 2026
Pages: 739
Difficulty: ★☆☆
Genres: Economics, Crime and Thriller
Translated from: English

Book summary

An American political and romantic novel from 1905. Jimmy Grayson, a young and almost unknown lawyer from the West, is unexpectedly chosen as his party’s candidate for President of the United States. Harley, a reporter for a New York newspaper, follows his campaign aboard a special train and falls in love with Sylvia, the candidate’s niece, a free-spirited young woman from Idaho. But financiers in the party want Grayson to stay silent on tariffs. A lively account of an election campaign and of the price of honesty in politics.

The plot

An unknown young man runs for president. In the United States, a party makes a surprise choice for its presidential candidate: Jimmy Grayson, a young lawyer from the West.

The world of the book

An election campaign by train. Around 1900, there is no radio and no television. To make himself known, a presidential candidate crosses the United States by train and speaks at every station, sometimes eight times a…

The author

Joseph Altsheler. Joseph Altsheler was born in a small village in Kentucky. In 1885, he became a journalist in Louisville. He then moved to New York to work for the New York World, a major newspaper, which sent him to…

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