Politics in fiction

This is a list of fictional stories in which politics features as an important plot element. Passing mentions are omitted from this list.

Ignacy Krasicki

Benjamin Disraeli

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Władysław Reymont

Martín Luis Guzmán

Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz

Robert Penn Warren

Written works

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The Republic (ca. 360 BCE) by Plato
Panchatantra (ca. 200 BCE) by Vishnu Sarma
Utopia (1516) by Thomas More
The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys (1578) by Jan Kochanowski
Don Quixote (1605) by Miguel de Cervantes
Simplicius Simplicissimus (1668) by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) by John Bunyan
Persian Letters (1721) by Montesquieu
Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift
Candide (1759) by Voltaire
The History and Adventures of an Atom (1769) by Tobias Smollett
Fables and Parables (1779) by Ignacy Krasicki
The Return of the Deputy (1790) by Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
The Partisan Leader (1836) by Nathaniel Beverley Tucker
Barnaby Rudge (1841) by Charles Dickens
The Betrothed (1842) by Alessandro Manzoni
Coningsby (1844) by Benjamin Disraeli
Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845) by Benjamin Disraeli
Tancred (1847) by Benjamin Disraeli
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens
Max Havelaar (1860) by Multatuli
Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev
The Palliser novels (1864–1879) by Anthony Trollope
War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy
Demons, also known as The Possessed or The Devils (1872), by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope (1875)
Honest John Vane (1875) by John William De Forest
The Gilded Age (1876) by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
Democracy: An American Novel (1880) by Henry Adams
An Enemy of the People (1882), play by Henrik Ibsen
An American Politician (1884) by F. Marion Crawford
The Princess Casamassima (1886) by Henry James
Prince Otto (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Bostonians (1886) by Henry James
Noli Me Tangere (1887) by José Rizal
Looking Backward (1888) by Edward Bellamy
El filibusterismo (1891) by José Rizal
The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) by Anthony Hope
Pharaoh (1895) by Bolesław Prus
Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad
NEQUA or The Problem of the Ages (1900) Jack Adams pseudonym for A. O. Grigsby and Mary P. Lowe
The Riddle of the Sands (1903) by Erskine Childers
Nostromo (1904) by Joseph Conrad
The Czar's Spy(1905) by William Le Queux
The Four Just Men (1905) by Edgar Wallace
King Leopold's Soliloquy (1905) by Mark Twain
The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (1905) by Thomas Dixon, Jr.
The Jungle (1906) by Upton Sinclair
The Secret Agent (1907) by Joseph Conrad
The Iron Heel (1908) by Jack London
Under Western Eyes (1911) by Joseph Conrad
Philip Dru: Administrator (1912) by Edward M. House
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (1914) by Robert Tressell
The Underdogs (1915) by Mariano Azuela
Herland (1915) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Fall of a Nation (1916) by Thomas Dixon, Jr.
We (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Bunt (The Revolt) (1922) by Władysław Reymont
Metropolis (1925) by Thea von Harbou
The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka
The Castle (1926) by Franz Kafka
The Shadow of the Caudillo (1929) by Martín Luis Guzmán
Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma (1932) by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz
Stamboul Train (1932) by Graham Greene
Black Mischief (1932) by Evelyn Waugh
The Forbidden Territory (1933) by Dennis Wheatley
Antoine Bloye (1933) by Paul Nizan
Fontamara (1933) by Ignazio Silone
The President (1933, published 1946) by Miguel Ángel Asturias
Burmese Days (1934) by George Orwell
The House of the Four Winds (1935) by John Buchan
It Can't Happen Here (1935) by Sinclair Lewis
Strange Passage (1935) by Theodore Irwin
Bread and Wine (1936) by Ignazio Silone
The Pretender (1936) by Lion Feuchtwanger
Alamut (1938) by Vladimir Bartol
The Confidential Agent (1939) by Graham Greene
Exit a Dictator (1939) by E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Gladiators (1939) by Arthur Koestler
Darkness at Noon (1940) by Arthur Koestler
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (1945) by George Orwell
A Bell for Adano (1945) by John Hersey
El Señor Presidente (1946) by Miguel Ángel Asturias
All the King's Men (1946) by Robert Penn Warren
Lonely Crusade (1947) by Chester Himes
Walden Two (1948) by B. F. Skinner
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell
Dark Green, Bright Red (1950) by Gore Vidal
In the Wet (1953) by Nevil Shute
The Outsider (1953) by Richard Wright
The Quiet American (1955) by Graham Greene
The Shark and the Sardines (1956) by Juan José Arévalo
The Last Hurrah (1956) by Edwin O'Connor
Atlas Shrugged (1957) by Ayn Rand
The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957) by John Steinbeck
The Ugly American (1958) by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick
Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe
Act of Mercy [U.S. title: Guns of Darkness] (1959) by Francis Clifford
The Manchurian Candidate (1959) by Richard Condon
Advise and Consent (1959) by Allen Drury
The Best Man (1960) by Gore Vidal (play)
Catch 22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing
Seven Days in May (1962) by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey
Corridors of Power (1964) by C.P. Snow
The Man (1964) by Irving Wallace
Dune (1965) by Frank Herbert
The Squares of the City (1965) by John Brunner
All in the Family (1966) by Edwin O'Connor
A Man of the People, by Chinua Achebe (1966)
The Comedians (1966) by Graham Greene
The Late Bourgeois World (1966) by Nadine Gordimer
Cancer Ward (1967) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Washington, D.C. (1967) by Gore Vidal
Z (1969) by Vassilis Vassilikos
The Godfather, by Mario Puzo (1969)
Being There, by Jerzy Kosiński (1971)
The Lorax (1971) by Dr. Seuss
Burr (1973) by Gore Vidal
Reasons of State (1974) by Alejo Carpentier
I, the Supreme (1974) by Augusto Roa Bastos
The Chocolate War (1974) by Robert Cormier
Remember Ruben (1974) by Mongo Beti
The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Guerrillas (1975) by V. S. Naipaul
The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975) by Edward Abbey
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1976) by Manuel Puig
1876 (1976) by Gore Vidal
A Flag For Sunrise, by Robert Stone (1977)
The Shad Treatment, (1977) by Garrett Epps
The Dead Zone (1979) by Stephen King
A Married Man (1979) by Piers Paul Read
An Enemy of the State, by F. Paul Wilson (1980)
A Very British Coup, by Chris Mullin (1982)
Legend of the Galactic Heroes by Yoshiki Tanaka (1982–88)
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd (1982–88)
The Day the Leader was Killed (1983) by Naguib Mahfouz
The Floating Island (1983) by Garrett Epps
The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta (1984) by Mario Vargas Llosa
First Among Equals (1984) by Jeffrey Archer
The Butter Battle Book (1984) by Dr. Seuss
The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood
Anthills of the Savannah (1987) by Chinua Achebe
Favorite Son, by Steve Sohmer, (1988)
House of Cards, by Michael Dobbs (1989)
Redemption (1990) by Tariq Ali
The Fourth K, by Mario Puzo (1990)
Vineland (1990) by Thomas Pynchon
Patriots, by Steve Sohmer (1991)
To Play the King, by Michael Dobbs (1991)
Fatherland, by Robert Harris (1992)
The Final Cut, by Michael Dobbs (1992)
American Hero, by Larry Beinhart (1994)
Blindness (1995) by Jose Saramago
Primary Colors (1996) by Joe Klein (as "Anonymous")
Absolute Power, by David Baldacci (1996)
Yo-Yo Boing! by Giannina Braschi (1998)
The Feast of the Goat (2000) by Mario Vargas Llosa
Snow (2002) by Orhan Pamuk
The Gospel According To Larry (2003) by Janet Tashjian
The Successor (2003) by Ismail Kadare
Seeing (2004) by José Saramago
De president, by Khalid Boudou (2005)
A Time to Run, by Barbara Boxer (2005)
The Polity of Beasts (2007) by Renald Iacovelli
The Writing on the Wall (2007) by Hannes Artens
The Coup, by Jamie Malanowski (2007)
The Ghost, by Robert Harris (2007)
When the White House Was Ours, by Porter Shreve (2008)
American Savior (2008) by Roland Merullo
The Best Laid Plans (2008) by Terry Fallis
United States of Banana (2011) by Giannina Braschi
What You Don't Know (2012) by David Belbin
Faultline 49 (2012) by David Danson
Stealing the Future (2015) by Max Hertzberg

Film

Mike Judge, director of Idiocracy (2006)

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The Dark Horse (1932)
Gabriel Over the White House (1933)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
State of the Union (film) (1948)
All the King's Men (1949)
A Lion in the Streets (1953)
The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma (Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy — 1956 Polish film, starring Adolf Dymsza, based on the novel of the same title by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz)
Advise & Consent (1962)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Best Man (1964)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Point of Order (1964)
Seven Days in May (1964)
Battle of Algiers (1966)
Pharaoh (1966 Polish feature film based on Bolesław Prus' novel, Pharaoh)
Z (film) (1969)
1776 (1972)
The Man (1972)
The Godfather (1972)
The Candidate (1972)
The Godfather, Part II (1974)
Being There (1979)
Seeing Red (1983)
Secret Honor (1984)
Power (1986)
Bob Roberts (1992)
The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)
Running Mates (1992)
Dave (1993)
The War Room (1993)
With Honors (1994)
The American President (1995)
Nixon (1995)
Flirting With Power (1996)
My Fellow Americans (1996)
Murder at 1600 (1997)
Wag the Dog (1997)
The Peacemaker (1997)
Absolute Power (1997, based on the 1996 novel by David Baldacci)
Bulworth (1998)
Primary Colors (1998)
The Siege (1998)
Three Kings (1999)
Dick (1999)
The Contender (2000)
Running Mates (2000)
Ali G Indahouse (2002)
The Quiet American (2002)
The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma (Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy — 2002 Polish film, starring Cezary Pazura, based on the novel of the same title by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz)
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)
The Manchurian Candidate (2004 remake of the 1962 film)
V for Vendetta (2005)
All the King's Men (2006)
An Unreasonable Man (2006)
Man of the Year (2006)
The Lives of Others (2006)
Idiocracy (2006)
Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
Dawn of the World (2008)
Swing Vote (2008)
Vantage Point (2008)
In the Loop (2009)
Raajneeti (2010)
2016: Obama's America (2012)
The Ides of March (2011)
The Dictator (2012)
The Campaign (2012)
Game Change (2012)
Lincoln (2012)

Television

Slattery's People (1964-65 American television series about local politics, starring Richard Crenna as a U.S. state legislator)
The Prisoner (1967)
The Adams Chronicles (1976 miniseries)
Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy (The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma — 1980 Polish TV miniseries based on the novel by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz)
Yes Minister (and its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister), by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn (1980–88)
Edge of Darkness (1985)
First Among Equals (1986)
The New Statesman (1987–94)
A Very British Coup (1988)
Tanner '88 (1988)
House of Cards (1990)
Babylon 5 (1993)
A Third Choice (1996)
Spin City (1996-2002)
Nostromo (1997)
The West Wing (1999–2006)
Moncloa, ¿dígame? (2001) Sitcom about the Spanish President press office
24 (2001–10)
The Wire (2002–08)
The Project (2002)
Absolute Power (2003, 2005)
Yugo the Negotiator (2004; anime, on hostage-negotiation)
Battlestar Galactica (2004)
Commander-in-Chief (2005)
The Thick of It, by Armando Iannucci (2005)
Brotherhood (2006)
Party Animals (BBC Two, 2007)
John Adams (2008) (miniseries)
Recount (2008)
The Hollowmen (ABC1, 2008)
Change (2008)
Parks and Recreation (2009)
Borgen (2010-2013)
Boss (2011)
Scandal (2012)
Political Animals (2012)
Veep, by Armando Ianucci (2012)
House of Cards (US) (2012)
The Best Laid Plans (2014)

Musicals

Comic strips

See also

External links

Political Film Society

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