Dumpty Trilogy

Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse; Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown; A Confederacy of Dumptys
Book • 2019
The Dumpty Trilogy consists of three New York Times bestselling books: Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse (2019), which satirizes Donald Trump's presidency; Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown: Verses for a Despotic Age (2020), a darker follow-up; and A Confederacy of Dumptys: Portraits of American Scoundrels in Verse (2021), profiling historical American villains.

Illustrated and narrated by Lithgow himself in audiobook editions, the series uses sharp humor and rhyme to critique corruption and power abuse.

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