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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Election Night, 1896: New York on the Edge of Collapse
Chapter 3: Chicago’s Victory and the Making of a King
Chapter 4: Market Panic and Gathering Silver Armies
Chapter 5: A Sunless Day and an Order Without Gold
Chapter 6: The Long Session: Mints, Taxes, and a Clean Sweep
Chapter 7: No Pause for Revolution: Loans, Works, and Rails
Chapter 8: When Silver Sinks: Speculation, Taxes, and the Burden of Money
Chapter 9: Year ’99: Stagnation, Fury, and a Southern Demand
Chapter 10: The North Weighs Secession
Chapter 11: Midnight at the Capitol: Hymns, Dynamite, and the End
Description
Ingersoll Lockwood’s 1896 political fantasy imagines an America upended by a populist victory and a radical money crusade. Set between the election of 1896 and New Year’s Eve 1899, it follows the shock in New York, the celebrations in Chicago, and the whirlwind reforms that promise prosperity but unleash chaos. Silver dollars flood the country. Prices wobble. Class anger spikes. The South gains power. The North whispers secession. And in a crowded House chamber, as hymns clash with the march of “John Brown’s Body,” the country’s fate hinges on a single bill. Told in a breathless, episodic rush, 1900: or, The Last President reads today like a warning siren about monetary zeal, political polarization, and the fragility of institutions when leaders bend them to the breaking point.
Who Should Listen
- Listeners who enjoy political fiction and alternate-history thought experiments
- History buffs curious about late-19th-century monetary debates and populism
- Fans of brisk, high-stakes narratives that feel eerily modern