Foreshadowing: in books and film, a hint—sometimes ominous—of events to come
Foreshadowing Trump examines four novels and one short shory that pre-date—that foreshadow—Trump:
Herman Melville's last novel, The Confidence-man: His Masquerade, 1857, which one recent critic called "the Art of the Scam"; Mark Twain's short story, "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," a story of greed and revenge; It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis, published in 1935; George Orwell's 1984, published in 1949; and Philip Roth's The Plot Against America, published in 2004.
Foreshadowing Trump also contains the complete Twain short story, "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," and the fascinating backstory to Twain's work.
Thomas Fensch is the author of 35 books of nonfiction. He has published five books on John Steinbeck; two each on James Thurber and Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel; one each on Ernest Hemingway and Oskar Schindler; and a full biography of John Howard Griffin, author of "Black Like Me." He has also published a variety of other nonfiction titles.