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"...The entire East Side of New York City is in a state of uproar. Mobs of vast size are organizing under the lead of anarchists and socialists, and threaten to plunder and despoil the houses of the rich who have wronged and oppressed them for so many years." --From The…

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1 author picked 1900 as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

If this publicity starts November 1, you’d better read this book IMMEDIATELY, before the election. They say history repeats itself. They say the world is coming to an end. Lockwood has written a near-future fiction which just happens to have a huge echo today. The most fascinating feature of the book is the number of political events bizarrely similar to today, from executive orders, to Supreme Court vacancies, to cutting off debate in the Senate, to riots in the streets of New York. I enjoyed the purple prose such as, “wiser heads were shaken in contradiction, for they had watched…

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