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Philip Dru Administrator

Edward Mandell House

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Philip Dru: Administrator: a Story of Tomorrow is a futuristic political novel by Edward Mandell House, an American diplomat, politician and presidential foreign policy advisor. His book's hero leads the democratic western U.S. in a civil war against the plutocratic East, and becomes the dictator of America. Dru as dictator imposes a series of reforms that resemble the Bull Moose platform and then vanishes.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .good he thought he might do the cause to which he was enlisted. He determined to write upon social subjects only, though he knew that this would be a disappointment to his publishers. He wanted to write an article or two before he began his permanent work, for if he wrote successfully, he thought it would add to his influence. So he began immediately, and finished his first contribution to the syndicate newspapers in time for them to use it the following Sunday.

He told in a simple way, the story of the Turners. In conclusion he said the rich and the well-to-do were as a rule charitable enough when distress came to their doors, but the trouble was that they were unwilling to seek it out. They knew that it existed but they wanted to come in touch with it as little as possible.

They smothered their consciences with the thought that there were organized societies and other mediums through which all poverty was reached, and to these they gave. They knew. . . Read More

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an excellent work of fiction... strongly recommend as a follow up reading after Atlas Shrugged....more

The edition which I read not only included the story related in the book of how a short military campaign is conducted to overthrow and replace the USA government and replace it with a socialistic form of democracy, it also commented on how the author actual worked in the government of the USA to ac

Researching the origins and meanings behind this book, not to mention the lengths I had to go to in order to read it, were much more exciting than the actual book

This book was written by an advisor of President Woodrow Wilson and presents socio political ideas in the form of an allegorical narrative centering on the heroic life of Philip Dru. The country is going downhill because a cabal of industrial monopolists, headed up by Senator Selwyn, has rigged the

Philip Dru: Administrator, Edward M. House, B.W. Huebsch, 1912

A novel of the near future, this is the story of one man’s dictatorship of America, and the taking back of the US from the moneyed special interests.

Philip Dru is your average, smarter than normal, West Point graduate. Stationed in the de

Escrito con el estilo de un secretario de gobierno (lo cual lo fue el autor) nos da una obra que hace como su manifiesto a un sistema político perfecto.
Una maravilla de libro

The book was written in 1911 by Col. Edward Mandell House who later became the closest advisor to President Woodrow Wilson. While the book itself is tedious reading, it is important reading for those who would like to understand American history. Even though the book is a work of fiction it reveals

Look, dude: it's okay to write a political manifesto. It's not actually necessary to try and force it into the shape of some vague utopian novel; especially if the very concept of plot and characterization escape you. The titular character spends the entire novel breathlessly describing everything f

Well written book that gives you the mindset of a progressive. Quick question though...If the "new" America was so perfect then why on earth would Phillip Dru decide to leave it?

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