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Bolton Hall
1854–1938
A reform-minded lawyer and writer, he turned questions of land, labor, and taxes into lively arguments for a fairer society. His books and activism helped popularize Georgist ideas and the early back-to-the-land movement in the United States.
3 Audiobooks
The psychology of sleep
by Bolton Hall
Three Acres and Liberty
by Bolton Hall
The garden yard : A handbook of intensive farming
by Bolton Hall
About the author
Born in Ireland in 1854, Bolton Hall later made his career in the United States as a lawyer, author, and public activist. He became closely associated with the ideas of Henry George, arguing for tax reform and broader access to land, and he wrote in a way meant to bring political economy to ordinary readers rather than specialists.
Hall was active in progressive causes beyond the page. He worked with labor and social reform movements, supported efforts on behalf of working people and the poor, and became an important voice in the early back-to-the-land movement, which encouraged small-scale farming and self-reliant living.
As an author, he wrote on subjects such as taxation, land ownership, and social change, and he also prepared an edition of the Bible known as The Living Bible. He died in 1938, leaving behind a body of work that reflects the reform energy of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.