The Manchurian Candidate is a 1959 political thriller novel by American writer Richard Condon, published by McGraw-Hill. It follows Raymond Shaw, the son of a prominent political family, who has been secretly brainwashed by a Communist conspiracy while a prisoner during the Korean War and turned into an unwitting assassin. The novel's title refers not to Shaw but to Senator Johnny Iselin, a demagogic politician modeled on Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose rise to power is engineered by the same conspiracy that controls Shaw. The book has been adapted into two feature films with differing political emphases. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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by Richard Condon, is a political thriller about the son of a prominent U.S. political family who is brainwashed into being an unwitting assassin for a Communist conspiracy.
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The Manchurian Candidate (1959), by Richard Condon, is a political thriller about the son of a prominent U.S. political family who is brainwashed into being an unwitting assassin for a Communist conspiracy. The novel has been adapted into a feature film twice; the first is The Manchurian Candidate (1962), which deals with anti-communist hysteria in U.S.
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The Manchurian Candidate (1959), by Richard Condon, is a political thriller about the son of a prominent U.S. political family who is brainwashed into being an unwitting assassin for a Communist conspiracy.
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The novel has been adapted into a feature film twice; the first is The Manchurian Candidate (1962), which deals with anti-communist hysteria in U.S. politics, and the second is The Manchurian Candidate (2004), which deals with corporate interference in the U.S. government.
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The Manchurian Candidate (1959), by Richard Condon, is a political thriller about the son of a prominent U.S. political family who is brainwashed into being an unwitting assassin for a Communist conspiracy.
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