Mark Twain, one of America's greatest writers, let his imagination roam over what would have happened if England in the early middle ages had been confronted by "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." Interestingly, eight years before the publication of Twain's book with its colorful events, a Pennsylvania Yankee, Henry George, was confronting Queen Victoria's court with events that years later many scholars find nearly as colorful in their way. George's achievements in England, largely unrealized before, are ...
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Mark Twain, one of America's greatest writers, let his imagination roam over what would have happened if England in the early middle ages had been confronted by "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." Interestingly, eight years before the publication of Twain's book with its colorful events, a Pennsylvania Yankee, Henry George, was confronting Queen Victoria's court with events that years later many scholars find nearly as colorful in their way. George's achievements in England, largely unrealized before, are recounted in a new book, "George and Democracy in the British Isles," published in April, 1993 by the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation. The work presents papers written by 12 scholars--economists, historians, and geographers--reporting their investigation of the impact of George's crusade for land reform and economic reconstruction in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland in the 1890s. Henry George, an economist and social philosopher, was the author of half a dozen books, including "Progress and Poverty" an all-time prose bestseller.
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