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Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown

Verses for a Despotic Age

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Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown

By: John Lithgow
Narrated by: John Lithgow
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 Following the success of his New York Times bestseller Dumpty, award-winning actor, author, and illustrator John Lithgow presents a brand-new collection of satirical poems chronicling the despotic age of Donald Trump.

Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown is darker and more hard-hitting than ever. Lithgow writes and draws with wit and fury as he takes readers through another year of the shocking events involving Trump and his administration. His uproarious poems and illustrations encompass Trump's impeachment, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter protests, and much more. Lithgow targets Mitch McConnell, Mike Pompeo, Bill Barr, Jared Kushner, Elaine Chao, and many others, but also includes a few heroes of the moment, including Anthony Fauci, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and even Barack Obama.

The book arrives at a time when it's needed most. With all-new poems and never-before-seen line drawings, Lithgow will once again make readers laugh and pause to remember some of the most defining moments in recent history-skewering the reign of King Dumpty one stanza at a time.

Digital audio edition read by the author. Literature & Fiction Poetry Politics & Government Satire United States World World Literature Comedy Witty

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Brilliantly written book , funny , just what we needed. Very entertaining. it is a masterpiece.

Brilliant

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Lithgow doesn't hide his politics. And good for him that he doesn't. This collection reminds you of the sheer amount of outrageous goings-on in the last few years, each one forgotten as the next climbs on top of it begging for attention.

I hadn't seen the first Trump collection of poems, but this caught my eye and I was hugely impressed with the actor's skill with a rhyme, a ditty and adding humour into the mix as well.

A collection of poems about the last year of Donald Trump's administration as President, Lithgow reads his own work and adds a short commentary after each, giving the context, explaining the characters (useful for a non-American audience).

They are witty, using the rhyme scheme, rhythm and words sometimes of nursery rhymes, and the ridiculousness of many situations as well as the horror of others is brought out by the comparison to a child's song.

Personally, I would have preferred another reader to narrate the poems, with Lithgow adding his notes at the end. His style didn't always allow flow and the natural rhythm of the rhymes wasn't always apparent or made the most of. Maybe that's just my subjective view though.

I can't fault his poems. Even the half-rhymes worked, and Lithgow is a very talented wordsmith with enviable abilities to succinctly give us the heart of a political story and even give us punchlines. I laughed aloud many times.

Will stir feeling, amuse, anger.

It may be less than two hours long, but it is definitely worth a purchase, some of these are even worth committing to memory and reciting.

With thanks to Nudge Books for providing a sample Audible copy.

Fan-trumping-tastic!

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John Lithgow is a great narrator. It is one of the reasons I enjoyed the book.

Enjoyed the book

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in todays world this book couldn't be needed more. it gave me many a chuckle in a time when i needed it badly. looking forward to the next one.

fantastic

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