Hobson's Planet

This thought provoking sci-fi novel demonstrates how someone with natural leadership skills will usually rise to the top in most any scenario. Culp Robinson wins the US presidential election; however, his victory is stolen from him. When he protests, he finds himself thrown into prison. Three years later he is offered an alternative to prison; an 18 month trip to Hobson's Planet. Once on Hobson's Planet, he wants only to find his ex-wife and daughter  who have preceded him; however, he is headed for a loftier position as the reluctant head of a revolution against an alien race.       This book has everything: frontier life and culture, politics, alien wars and revolutions, sex with an exotic alien female, super ray gun weapons, and people fighting for their political and economic freedom.
The story's pace will yank you through it.