Picture this: A nation indifferent to the democratic process selects as its leader a person so unfit for the job he makes everything a joke and his only aim is returning society to what made it great in ages past. But his farcical restoration of patriotic pride is taken seriously and creates a populist uprising that surprises his fiercest critics and leads to an epic battle.
If you think I’m predicting the outcome of the insurgent presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump, I’m not. Actually, this is a summary of British author G.K. Chesterton’s first novel, The Napoleon of Notting Hill—written in 1904.
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