[Hambone 1934]

Lockwood also had a series about a little boy and his dog,,The boy’s name...BARON TRUMP..........

[Openurmind]

Thank you...

[shove_it]

Just read the book. It’s only 48 pages long and sounds very familiar, prescient. Good find,

Cheers, Otter

[MayflowerMadam]

How interesting! Truly.

[Churchillspirit]

Good find. Thank you.

[zeugma]

A better source for the book is this link from Project Gutenberg. It's available there as html,epub,kindle, or plain text.

[Albion Wilde]

...the railway trains night and day brought vast crowds of “new men,” politicians of low degree, men out of employment, drunken and disgruntled mechanics, farmer’s sons, to seek their fortunes under the Reign of the People, heelers and hangers-on of ward bosses, old men who had not tasted office for thirty years and more, all inspired by Mr. Bryan’s declaration that “The American people are not in favor of life tenure in the Civil Service, that a permanent office holding class is not in harmony with our institutions, that a fixed term in appointive offices would open the public service to a larger number of citizens, without impairing its efficiency,”

[Albion Wilde]

The book also names the incoming Secretary of Agriculture—Lafe Pence.

[Albion Wilde]

The book also contains this amazing word: bezonian (the definition hardly fits Bezos, however).

be•zo•ni•an
n. An indigent wretch; a beggar or scoundrel.
n. A low fellow or scoundrel; a beggar.
n. a beggar, pauper, rascal.