They currently offer the book as a freely downloadable PDF on the website of Robert Welch University. This superfluous association with conspiracy topics has the deleterious effect of preventing conservatives and others from reading a book which has a real educational value in the context of progressive ideology in general and the era of the Wilson administration in particular.Īfter the book's initial release in 1912, it was re-issued into print in 1965 by the John Birch Society, and again in 1998 by RWU Press. While it has been accurately cast by such websites as a "Blueprint for Tyranny", these other topics mixed in on these sites makes it hard to get an indication of what the book is really all about. The association of this book with these other topics misses the point of the book. Philip Dru has been a favorite among conspiracy theorist websites that commonly refer to topics such as the New world order organizations such as the Illuminati, the Bilderberg group, and the Trilateral Commission families such as the Rockefeller and Rothschild family and Round Table groups such as the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Suffice it to know Philip Dru is an autobiography of the colonel himself and solves the Conundrum how to get rid of the Constitution." Conspiracy Theorists If there be twilight zones in the biography of 1918, the colonel's 312 pages of fiction flashed from the watchtowers of 1912 a searchlight athwart the gloaming so any wayfarer can see everything. He said: " Here is exhibited the colonel's whole mental viscera. Senator Lawrence Sherman of Illinois talked about the book in congress, noting its substantial influence. Neu, House's biographer, noted the deep ideological progressivism of House: "He(House) concluded that an extension of public authority and the use of expert knowledge were essential to ease the crises in American life." She concludes by pointing out that Philip Dru is a significant political document. Historian Billie Jensen noted that it is not very often that a utopian reformer has an opportunity to be as influential as House was, with their visions of utopia implemented so soon relative to their creation. In a book review for The New York Times, Walter Lippmann wrote of the novel and its anonymous author that " if the author is really a man of affairs, this is an extraordinarily interesting book". I began with him before he became President and I have never relaxed my efforts." Perhaps the most valuable work I have done in this direction has been in influencing the President. House remarked of Dru: " Philip Dru expresses my thought and aspirations, and at every opportunity, I have tried to press rulers, public men and those influencing public opinion in that direction. Historian Paul Johnson notes that "in 1911 House had published a political novel, Philip Dru: Administrator, in which a benevolent dictator imposed a corporate income tax, abolished the protective tariff, and broke up the 'credit trust' - a remarkable adumbration of Wilson and his first term." Edward M. And yet they say that House has no power." The President comes to Philip Dru in the end. Lane noted the similarities between Wilson's governing style and the writings contained in the novel: " Colonel House's Book, Philip Dru, favors it, and all that book has said should be, comes about slowly, even woman suffrage. Wilson's Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. President Woodrow Wilson is known to have been given a copy of Philip Dru by Edward House, who was one of his most trusted advisers, to read while on a trip to Bermuda after winning the Presidency.
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