American Zeroes

A huge, brutish man accuses his neighbors of being terrorists without offering any proof. A short, bald man who wants nothing more than to restore Russia to its former glory pulls the brute's strings. Is this about current events? No, this was written more than a year before Trump announced his candidacy and it was published four months before his election to office. It is about Jeremiah Stumpf, a man who shuns facts in favor of fiction and thinks he and he alone can save the United States of America.  But who will save the United States from him?