Description: This antique volume, by King C. Gillette, comes bound in dark blue cloth with title and author in gold lettering on the front cover board, as well as a stamped emblem on the lower right hand corner of the front board.A great responsibility is faced by both rich and poor. Those who have great wealth, no less than those who labor, must give give their strength and share the burdens, for mankind can rise above the level of the beast only by sacrifice, only by placing the good of the whole above the good of any one of the parts. The successful entrepreneur, an inventor of the safety razor who made a fortune selling disposable razor-blades, was also a utopian socialist with radical notions for the transformation of society. In this book, written in silent collaboration with Upton Sinclair, he developed an idea he began to articulate in his 1894 book The Human Drift, that all industry be centralized under a single corporation belonging to and for the benefit of, all the people. Gillette attempted to bring his vision to reality, even once offering the presidency of the corporation to former President Theodore Roosevelt (who was not interested). Laid into this copy is a separately printed leaflet announcing: "Write your own review of the People's Corporation" and offering $1000 in prizes. The reviews were to be judged by a panel comprised of "Norman Hapgood, author and publicist; Herbert Croly, editor of The New Republic; and Prof. Edwin R.A. Seligman, Professor of Political Science at Columbia University.
Price: 150 USD
Location: Nevada City, California
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Publication Year: 1924
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Book Title: The Peoples Corporation
Author: King C. Gillette
Publisher: Boni & Liveright
Original Language: English
Topic: People
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
