Just got finished reading this, as I’d heard it was some time traveler book that seemed to foretell what we were about to see very shortly.
No. It’s basically a doomer story of how, just prior to 1900, after a populist president is elected and does away with usury and returns us to the gold/silver standard, our country erupts into chaos, collapses, and divides back into 50 states as a last resort.
So…any reason people here keep touting this thing?
Technically it’s a populist that has a rogue Congress usurp control and drive the country under in the name of “We the People” and “Freedom and Liberty”
I didn’t gather that. The new congress came in and worked day and night without recess for months enacting every thing the president wanted. It just didn’t work out how they expected it to.
The book was written in the 1890s I think. Reads like pre-election fear mongering. Maybe Lockwood was a J.