Mr. Crewe's Career is a 1908 best-selling novel by American writer Winston Churchill.

Mr. Crewe's Career
Advertisement for Mr. Crewe's Career in the New York Tribune
AuthorWinston Churchill
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherMacmillan
Publication date
May 1908
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages498 pp

The novel tells the story of a railroad lobby's attempts to control the New Hampshire state government using all possible tactics. Churchill's prior novel Coniston was also a political novel, and the successor draws from Churchill's own unsuccessful run for Governor of New Hampshire in 1906.[1]

Though the book was perhaps not as praised as Coniston, it was generally well-received and popular.[2][3][4] It was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1908. Playwright Marion Fairfax also adapted the novel into a play which opened in New Haven, Connecticut in December 1908.[5]

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