Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age

by Edward T. O'Donnell

Book Overview

America's remarkable explosion of industrial output and national wealth at the end of the nineteenth century was matched by a troubling rise in poverty and worker unrest. As politicians and intellectuals fought over the causes of this crisis, Henry George (1839-1897) published a radical critique of laissez-faire capitalism and its threat to the nation's republican traditions. "Progress and Poverty" (1879), which became a surprise best-seller, offered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231120001
• ISBN13: 9780231120005
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher