Philip Dru: Administrator. A Story of Tomorrow 1920-1935

1912 [House, Edward Mandell] (1858-1938). Philip Dru: Administrator. A Story of Tomorrow 1920-1935. New York: B.W. Huebsch. Rpt. Appleton, WI: Robert Welch University Press, 1998 with a “Foreword” (i-xi) by William Norman Grigg, “Publisher’s Appendices” (251-75), and an “Index” (276-82). The added material presents the book as seriously undermining the U.S. political system. MoU-St, PSt

Eutopia after a civil war in the U.S. between the corrupt plutocracy and those supporting the citizenry as a whole. The U.S. system is reformed under the leadership of a man who takes the title “Administrator of the Republic”. Reforms include votes for women, a graduated income tax, national rather than state and local laws, radical reduction in the number of judges, and elimination of the ability of the Supreme Court to pass on the constitutionality of laws, among other things. Includes a new national constitution. The author was an adviser to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924. President 1913-21).