The Manchurian Candidate
Type: Book
As of November 2026, The Manchurian Candidate has been mentioned in one podcast episode on How Did This Get Made? (Dec 2025). Mentioned as one of John Frankenheimer's great movies in the past.
The Manchurian Candidate (1959), by Richard Condon, is a political thriller about the son of a prominent U.S. political family who is brainwashed into being an unwitting assassin for a Communist conspiracy. The Manchurian Candidate novel has twice been adapted into a feature film; the first is The Manchurian Candidate (1962), which deals with anti-communist hysteria in U.S. politics, and the second is The Manchurian Candidate (2004), which deals with corporate interference in the U.S. government
| Mentioned in | 1 episode on 1 podcast (as of November 2026) |
|---|---|
| First heard | Dec 2025 on How Did This Get Made? |
| Author | Richard Condon |
| Published | 1959 |
| Publisher | DH Audio |
| Subjects | Fiction, Mothers and sons, Assassins |
| ISBN | 0451165672 |
| Genre | Fiction, Mothers and sons, Assassins |
Who talks about The Manchurian Candidate on podcasts?
The Manchurian Candidate came up; the most recent mention was Dec 2025 on How Did This Get Made?.