# Coniston — Volume 01

Author: Churchill, Winston, 1871-1947

Genre: Bestsellers, American, 1895-1923

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3762

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Coniston+Churchill&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

First I am to write a love-story of long ago, of a time some little while after General Jackson had got into the White House and had shown the world what a real democracy was. The Era of the first six Presidents had closed, and a new Era had begun. I am speaking of political Eras. Certain gentlemen, with a pious belief in democracy, but with a firmer determination to get on top, arose,--and got in top. So many of these gentlemen arose in the different states, and they were so clever, and they found so many chinks in the Constitution to crawl through and steal the people's chestnuts, that the Era may be called the Boss-Era. After the Boss came along certain Things without souls, but of man...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/coniston-volume-01-3762/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/coniston-volume-01-3762/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/coniston-volume-01-3762/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/coniston-volume-01-3762/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/coniston-volume-01-3762/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/coniston-volume-01-3762/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/coniston-volume-01-3762/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/coniston-volume-01-3762/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/coniston-volume-01-3762/chapters/2/index.md)