Democracy by Henry Adams: why it's the best anonymous Washington novel.

The publication of the dismal O: A Presidential Novel?the 2008 campaign's contribution to the genre of anonymously published political fiction?led Slate readers to vote on their all-time favorite Washington novel. You did yourselves credit by choosing Democracy by Henry Adams. Like O, and the Clinton-era Primary Colors before it, Democracy was an anonymously published roman � clef, causing a stir in political circles when it appeared in 1880. Unlike those authors' anonymity, however, the secret of Adams' authorship held for 35 years.

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