Ingersoll Lockwood 
1900 or, The last President [PDF ebook] 

A 1890's book written about what happens when the wrong President is elected.
This succinct little book about a turn-of-the-century president was definitely a page turner. He filled the cabinet with his well-known cohorts, immediately started writing executive orders to change public policy, wanted to proceed with the ability to do without "foreign cooperation, " and was met with a series of public protests in response to his actions.