George Orwell's '1984' is a best-seller again. Here's why it resonates now

These are the remembered phrases of George Orwell's dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four," about a futuristic totalitarian state run by "Big Brother." It surged to the top of Amazon's best-seller list Wednesday–President Donald Trump's sixth day in office. According to CNN, Penguin has begun printing more copies of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" to meet the demand. The increase in sales appears to have started after Trump senior advisor Kellyanne Conway used the term "alternative facts" in an interview Sunday, which British historian and Orwell biographer Peter Stansky said was a phrase that "is very Orwellian, very'Newspeak.'" In "Nineteen Eighty-Four," "Newspeak" is the language of the state used to suppress thought. Stansky believes that the increase in sales of the novel, which Orwell wrote in 1949 as a warning to the Western world about the totalitarianism of his era, is a direct response to President Trump's efforts to manipulate facts during his first week in office.