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Trollope’s Melmotte Anticipates Trump

By Robin Bates | Published: July 6, 2016

Anthony Trollope foreshadowed Donald Trump in the figure of Augustus Melmotte in “The Way We Live Now” (1875).

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Trollope & Trump’s Willing Enablers

By Robin Bates | Published: May 19, 2016

Trollope describes gentry who enable to a scandalous financier in “The Way We Live Now.” Parallels can be drawn with those members of the GOP who are reconciling with Donald Trump.

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