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The 1962 film bearing the same name was directed by John Frankenheimer, and starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Janet Leigh co-starring are Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva, and James Gregory. Condon's expert manipulation of the book's multiple themes – from anticommunist hysteria to megalomaniacal motherhood – makes this one of the most dazzling, and enduring, products of an unforgettable time. It is a political thriller about the son of a prominent U.S. The Manchurian Candidate is a novel about conditioning, control and manipulation - and brilliantly explores all these topics.
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Jacket design by Bernard Krigstein.įirst published in 1959, The Manchurian Candidate is Condon's riveting take on a little-known corner of the cold war, the almost sci-fi concept of American soldiers captured, brainwashed, and programmed by their Chinese captors to return to the states as unsuspected political assassins. The Manchurian Candidate is a novel by Richard Condon, first published in 1959. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1959.įirst edition of this brilliant, controversial novel, basis for the 1962 film adaptation, which has been called “the most chilling piece of cold war paranoia ever committed to film” (New York Times).