Henry George

Résumé du livre

This book is not only the definitive biography of one of America's most exciting social thinkers and crusaders for reform, it is also an intellectual and emotional history which vividly re-creates the atmosphere of mid to late nineteenth-century America. Henry George was born in Philadelphia in 1839 and left home when he was sixteen to sail as a foremast boy to Calcutta. The author tells of his period of wanderlust at sea and throughout the West, his career in California journalism and politics, his rise as a theorist in the field of political economy, and his phenomenal impact on contemporary social thought and on labor and reform politics-following the publication of his world-famous Progress and Poverty. Professor Barker's new interpretation shows that the single tax, for which Henry George is remembered, was more largely his followers' work than his own and that his own greater importance lay in stimulating land reform and other social reform in Britain, labor and urban-reform politics at home, and in offering doctrinaire free-trade criticism to American tariff policy. He captured an idea and with his idea captured the loyalty or plagued the resistance of millions in America and all over the world. Not only was he the chief crusader for reform in his day; Henry George's challenge is still exciting. He had a strategy for America's war on want, pro founder than Congressional appropriations for technical assistance. With conviction and energy he pitted himself against the slavery of poverty. ISBN 0911312854 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1550 Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag. Reprint. Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1955. Artikel-Nr. 965972