Foreshadowing: in books and film, a hint—sometimes ominous—of events to comeForeshadowing 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.