To Tariff or Not to Tariff? Wholly Read Aloud in Congress
GEORGE, Henry.
Protection or Free Trade. An Examination of the Tariff Question with especial Regard to the Interests of Labor. New York, Henry George & Co, 1886.
8vo, pp. viii, 359, [1, blank]; a clean copy in the original brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, embossed sides; minimal wear to extremities; acquisition inscription ‘J.C. Connolly’ dated 17 June 1886, and his stamp with designation ‘Counsellor at Law, Elizabeth, N.J’ to the front free endpaper, stamp also on the pastedown.
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Protection or Free Trade. An Examination of the Tariff Question with especial Regard to the Interests of Labor.
First edition of ‘perhaps the best-argued tract on free trade to this day’ (Cowen). A rhetorically brilliant book, as Milton Friedman observed, Protection or Free Trade was the first book to be read entirely into the Congressional Record, being read aloud by five Democratic congressmen.