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THE MOTION BEFORE THE HOUSE This is a book a hundred million people would write if they had time. I am nominating in this book—in the presence of the people, the next President of the United States. The name is left blank. I am nominating a man not a name. I am presenting a program and a sketch of what the next President will be like, of what he will be like as a fellow human being, and I leave the details—his name, the color of his eyes and the party he belongs to, to be filled in by people lat

  I GIST The Crowd is my Hero. The Hero of this book is a hundred million people. I have come to have the feeling—especially in regard to political conventions, that it might not be amiss to put forward some suggestions just now as to how a hundred million people can strike—make themselves more substantial, more important in this country, so that we shall really have in this country in time a hundred million people who, taken as a whole, feel important in it—like a Senator for instance—like Sena

  I G. S. L. TO HIMSELF The most important and necessary things a man ever says sometimes, are the things he feels he must say particularly to himself. In what I have to say about this nation I have stripped down to myself. Of course any man in expressing privately his own soul to himself, may hit off a nation, because of course when one thinks of it, that is the very thing everybody in a nation would do, probably if he had time. But that may or may not be. All I know is that in this book, and i

  I BIG IN LITTLE A nation, in order to be a safe nation for itself, or safe for other nations in this world, must have a technique for getting and for getting a world to want it to get—its own way. I am interested in a technique for a nation's getting its way and deserving to get its way because I want to get mine, and because being human and having quite a good deal of human nature taken out of the same stuff—out of the same mixed hot and cold ingredients as other people's, I have quite natura

  I FOURTH OF JULY ALL THE YEAR ROUND It would be very convenient for the other nations in the world to-day if America—being the biggest, the freshest and the most powerful after the war and having the other nations for the time being most dependent on it, could be the one that they felt most deserved to lead them and have its way with them. It is almost the personal necessity of forty other nations to-day that America should be a success, that America instead of instantly disappointing the othe

  RECONSTRUCTION I started this book taking the Crowd for my hero—that faint bodiless phantasmagoric presence, that helpless fog or mist of humanity called the People. I have proceeded upon two premises. A spirit not connected with a body is without a technique, without the mechanical means of self-expression or self-fulfillment. It is a ghost trying to have a family. A body not connected with its spirit is without a technique for seeing what to do. It is without the spiritual means of self-expr

  I THE BIG BROTHER OF THE PEOPLE If I were writing a book to be used during a Presidential campaign, used as a handbook of the beliefs of the people—a book in the next few weeks for a nation to say yes or no to, for a great people to go before their conventions with, the first belief I would put down for the new President to run on would be the belief that every man in this country is a bigger, better and truer man than the present arrangements of our industrial and social life seem willing to