In his lifetime, Henry George was one of the world's bestselling authors. Just as remarkable was the fact that his fame was based on his work as a political economist. Though he proposed some of the most original explanations for poverty and solutions for it, George is mostly forgotten today. Still, his story and his ideas are worth knowing.

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In addition to an extensive reading of George's texts and my own scholarship, I have relied on the following works to construct this account:

Henry George, Jr., Henry George (1900).

Charles A. Barker, Henry George (1955; 1991).

Edward T. O'Donnell, Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality (2015).

Christopher W. England, Land and Liberty: ...