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What if an election leaves a republic unable to survive its own quarrels?
In Ingersoll Lockwood's 1900; or, The Last President, an American election opens onto a frightening political possibility. Money, debt and class divide the country. Farmers, workers and bankers disagree over what money should be, while the story imagines what follows if the side Lockwood fears takes power.
New York becomes a stage for wealth, poverty and gathering anger. Crowds fill the tale with pressure, and fear hangs over the city. This short political novel carries the urgency of a warning: beneath the election struggle lies a larger question about whether the American republic can hold together.
What you’ll discover
- An election under strain Enter a political struggle where arguments over money reach into the foundations of the republic.
- A city on edge See New York's great wealth and crowded poverty become the setting for class anger.
- Fear as political force Explore how dread shapes Lockwood's vision of an election and its possible consequences.
- Democracy's fragile foundations Face the unsettling possibility that a nation's own divisions can threaten its political survival.
- An urgent warning tale Follow a plain, quick narrative that puts political alarm ahead of richly drawn characters.
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For readers who love political history, early American fiction and cautionary tales about democracy, and anyone curious about how fear shapes politics.
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- An election year sets the stage
- A city under the pressure of the crowd
- The title promises a broken republic
- A warning tale and its long echo
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1900, O el último presidente
by Ingersoll Lockwood · 1896
After a bitter election, crowds fill the city and a republic faces the threat of its own quarrels.
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An election year sets the stage
The novel springs from the American election of 1896. The country was still sore from the depression of the 1890s, and farmers, workers and bankers disagreed bitterly about what money should be. The fight over free silver, which Democrats and Populists backed, and the gold standard, which many business leaders favored, was the great quarrel of the day.
Lockwood was a New York lawyer and writer, and he sided with the fearful, propertied view. He saw the rising movement of the poor and the indebted as a danger to order. The novel turns that fear into a story set in the near future, so the reader meets a possible tomorrow rather than a lecture.
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What is 1900; or, The Last President about?
It is a political novel from 1896 that imagines a dark future for the United States after a bitterly fought election. It reflects fears about class conflict, mob unrest and the survival of the republic.
When was 1900; or, The Last President written?
Ingersoll Lockwood published it in New York in 1896, during the presidential campaign of that year. It is a work of fiction, not a true story, though it draws on the real politics of its time.
Is 1900; or, The Last President a true story or a prediction?
It is fiction. Lockwood invented a fearful future to argue against the political movement he opposed. Nothing in it describes real events, and it should be read as a warning tale rather than as a forecast.
The author
Ingersoll Lockwood
1841–1918 · American lawyer and novelist
Ingersoll Lockwood (1841–1918) was an American lawyer and writer born in Ossining, New York. He wrote Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump and His Wonderful Dog Bulger (1890), Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey (1893), and 1900; or, The Last President (1896). He died in Saratoga Springs, New York.
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