"renters and hopeless wage slaves ... [is] some reason for revolution... Out of the cheapest and ugliest cliches of the trash literature of his time, Gibbons has shaped an ironic satire of capitalist America's greed and foolhardy racism." (p. 378-81) Publication history The Red Napoleon first appeared as an illustrated 18-part serial in Liberty magazine, from April 6 through August 3, 1929. In August 1929, the novel was published in hardcover by the new New York firm of Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith. In 1976, the novel was reissued by the Southern Illinois University Press, part of their Lost American Fiction series, with an afterword by John Gardner. Popular Library published the mass market counterpart in 1977. See also Invasion literature References External links "Mongol Hordes Take Manhattan: Before there was Red Dawn, there was Red Napoleon" by J.M. Berger, Foreign Policy, November 21, 2012 1929 American novels Invasion literature 1929 speculative fiction novels