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==Publishing Career==

==Publishing Career==

In 1871 he published Our Land Policy, which, as further developed in 1879 under the title of [[Progress and Poverty]], speedily attracted the widest attention both in America and in Europe. In 1886 he published Protection or Free Trade. Henry George had no political ambition, but in 1886 he received an independent nomination as mayor of New York City, and became so popular that it required a coalition of the two strongest political parties to prevent his election. He received 68,000 votes, against 90,000 for the coalition candidate. His death on the 29th of October 1897 was followed by one of the greatest demonstrations of popular feeling and general respect that ever attended the funeral of any strictly private citizen in American history. The fundamental doctrine of Henry George, the equal right of all men to the use of the earth, did not originate with him; but his clear statement of a method by which it could be enforced, without increasing state machinery, and indeed with a great simplification of government, gave it a new form. This method he named the Single Tax.

In 1871 he published Our Land Policy, which, as further developed in 1879 under the title of [[Progress and Poverty]], speedily attracted the widest attention both in America and in Europe. In 1886 he published Protection or Free Trade. Henry George had no political ambition, but in 1886 he received an independent nomination as mayor of New York City with the United Labor Party,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=1XTvAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA106 American Labor History Made Easy!]</ref> which was a creation of New York's Central Labor Union.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ATL_3v4_PkwC&pg=PA127 Trade Unions and Community: The German Working Class in New York City, 1870-1900]</ref>  He became so popular that it required a coalition of the two strongest political parties to prevent his election. He received 68,000 votes, against 90,000 for the coalition candidate. His death on the 29th of October 1897 was followed by one of the greatest demonstrations of popular feeling and general respect that ever attended the funeral of any strictly private citizen in American history. The fundamental doctrine of Henry George, the equal right of all men to the use of the earth, did not originate with him; but his clear statement of a method by which it could be enforced, without increasing state machinery, and indeed with a great simplification of government, gave it a new form. This method he named the Single Tax.

==Single Tax==

==Single Tax==