1900; or, The last President

by by Ingersoll Lockwood

Kindle Edition

Published November 18, 2020

Reviews

[Zen · Rating 2 out of 5]

As a story it's somewhat dull and flaccid and definitely has an abrupt short ending.

It's simular to his Baron Trump children's book in that there is no real story here. Just a recitation of forward occurring events with a taint of descriptive clarification concerning the reasons people now exist in their present social conditions.

That last sentence pretty much sums up the character of the author's writing style.

Basically the "story" is about:

1. An incompetent attempt at a Socialist Revolution

2. A conspiracy orientated take on the relationship between the Gold Standard and the accumulation of Gold Reserves by a Federally Oriented Government in Washington

and......

3. I'm just theorizing with this one, a critique of the Reconstruction Policies of the Federal Government in the late 19th century, where Southerners were regaining all the Political Rights and Privileges taken away from them for starting, and subsequently losing, the Civil War. It was like their War Guilt was being expunged from the Historical Record. And thus, enters, Jim Crow Laws.

[Nav · Rating 2 out of 5]

I like the writing itself (the description and such), but story-wise it's a letdown.