Henry George Reconsidered
Rhoda Hellman
[1987]
FROM THE BOOK JACKET:
"Rhoda Hellman was born in New York City and graduated from Vassar College, majoring in French and Italian. For
many years she was a freelance reader for Aldred Knopf, Farrar Straus & Giroux and other publishers,
reviewing French, German and Italian works of fiction. She also wrote book reviews for
The New York Times,
translated portions of books on art and taught English to foreigners under the Refugee Education Committee Active
in the Stevenson and Kennedy presidential campaigns, she later served on the New York County Democratic Committee.
It was by chance that she attended the Henry George School.
Progress and Poverty made such an impression
on her as literature and philosophy that she undertook to explore why its essential economic principle had received
so little application. Although somewhat at oddswith the beliefs of the Georgist movement, she was involved with
it intermittently for over twenty-five years, researching its history and visiting its classes and conferences,
while declining all proffered positions with it. She feels that this unusual relationship to the movement -- as
both insider and outsider -- has enabled her to reach a fresh perspective on Henry George."
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