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Book Reviews
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In The Manchurian Candidate [Condon]...compresses a breathlessly up-to-date-thriller, gimmicked to the gills, from judo to narcohypnosis. [The novel is also] a psychoanalytic horror tale about...a mother and son, and an irate socio-political satire that tries to flay our shibboleths.... Unfortunately, he is least adept in pursuing the psychological strand central to the book.... His style seems quite foreign to the slow, cumulative playing out of motivations such a task demands.
Frederic Morton - New York Times (4/26/1959)