All this means that the reader who wants to learn about political phenomena from the novel will have a greater mass of material to work with than ever. Overall quality will be at least as good as it has been and probably better as proportionately more good novelists work in this genre. All of the fictional histories, analyses, and interpretations will require the same reader value-judgments as ever. Prejudice will still intrude; partisanship will still distort. But these same judgments are necessary, in a measure, when the reader picks up the book of a historian or a political scientist. And the novelist may use all of the tools in their workrooms while he adds to them his own resources--imagination, dramatic form, and the freedom and scope given him by the versatile art of fiction. Bibliography AMERICAN NOVELS ADAMS, HENRY: _Democracy_ (1880). Madeleine Lee goes to Washington to learn about democracy and government. Disillusioned by its state and by Senator Ratcliffe. ADAMS, SAMUEL: _Revelry_ (1926). Fictionalized version of Harding era’s corruption. AMSBARRY, MARY ANNE: _Caesar’s Angel_ (1952). Rise and fall of a tainted young politician who tries to deal with criminal element in a state adjacent to Illinois. BRADBURY, RAY: _Fahrenheit 451_ (1953). A book-destroying Fireman turns against the post-atomic war regime of a horrific, cultureless, totalitarian United States. BURNETT, FRANCES HODGSON: _Through One Administration_ (1914). Innocent Bertha Amory’s husband uses her charm to lobby for his schemes in late nineteenth-century Washington. CHURCHILL, WINSTON: _Coniston_ (1906). Jethro Bass’s rise to control of a New England state through mortgage holdings and political deals in the post-Jacksonian era. ----: _Mr. Crewe’s Career_ (1908). Twenty years after Bass’s death the railroads exercise tighter control. Signs of public opinion being marshalled for action. COE, CHARLES FRANCIS: _Ashes_ (1952). Contemporary politics and corruption plus murder. CRAWFORD, F. MARION: _An American Politician_ (1884). Reformer John Harrington’s excursion into politics of the late eighties under Marquis of Queensberry rules. DEFOREST, JOHN WILLIAM: _Honest John Vane_ (1875). A weak congressman seduced into corruption by a satanic lobbyist and a money-hungry wife during Reconstruction. ----: _Playing the Mischief_ (1876). Attractive Josie Murray gets a fraudulent relief bill passed by a corrupt Congress amidst unsavory Washingtonians. DOS PASSOS, JOHN: _Adventures of a Young Man_ (1938). Glenn Spotswood’s development into Communist organizer and his death for Trotskyism in the Spanish Civil War. ----: _Number One_ (1943). Huey Long-like Chuck Crawford carries on as Tyler Spotswood goes to jail for him in atonement for his collusion in a corrupt career.