THE BOOKS
Two novels by Ingersoll Lockwood, a New York lawyer, published in 1893 and 1896.
In Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey (1893) a wealthy, precocious boy named Baron Trump leaves Castle Trump on a journey through an underground world.
In 1900; or, The Last President (1896), mobs converge on the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York after a populist candidate wins the presidency.
Both books are in the public domain. Read them and decide for yourself what they are.
The record
- Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey (1893), Internet Archive
- 1900; or, The Last President (1896), Internet Archive
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