How I Came to Embrace the Principles
Embraced by Henry George

Dan Sullivan

[2000]

I had no guidance whatsoever, other than someone telling me I was a Georgist, so I went to the library and looked up all the books they had on or by George and took some out. (There were way too many to take them all out.)

I think I read Social Problems first, and Steve Cord's Henry George: Dreamer or Realist? I remember deciding that I would skip Progress and Poverty, reasoning that it was his first book, and I would focus on later books, when he would have been more likely to have gotten his act together. When I finally read Progress and Progress, though, it was a gripper.

I don't use P&P to introduce people to the Georgist idea. Rather, I suggest Social Problems to liberals and Protection or Free Trade to conservatives. Once they are primed and ready to go off the deep end, I suggest Progress and Poverty;

You should know that I have Social Problems almost ready to put online, and got a grant from Schalkenbach. It is currently at:

http://geolib.pair.com/george.henry/spcont.html

However, don't bookmark it there or link to it yet, as it will soon be ported over to the Schalkenbach site. I have to change some link names to be Georgist instead of geolibertarian, insert metatags so the search engines will find it, and do some other minor stuff.