Henry George

This book is both the definitive biography of one of America's most exciting social thinkers and crusaders for reform, and a vivid re-creation of the intellectual and emotional atmosphere of mid to late nineteenth-century America. The author recounts Henry George's life from his birth in Philadelphia in 1839 to his death in New York in 1897: his wanderlust at sea and throughout the West, his career in California journalism and politics, 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 interpretation shows that George's great importance lay less in the single-tax, for which he is remembered, and more in stimulating land and other social reforms in Britain, labor and urban-reform politics at home, and in free-trade criticism of American tariff policy. An outstanding work of scholarship, HENRY GEORGE is a magnificent panorama of an age. Charles Albro Barker received his Ph.D. from Yale University, and taught at various schools, including Stanford & Johns Hopkins. This cloth edition is available for $15, from Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 41 East 72nd St., New York, NY 10021. (212) 988-1680.