Mark Hassed's short biography of Henry George (see 
http://www.taxreform.com.au/HG/bio.htm) states that "in 1886 Henry George 
issued his spirited defence of free trade entitled _Protection or Free 
Trade_ which has sold over two million copies. Publication was delayed 
because the manuscript was lost when it was nearly complete requiring a 
laborious re-write." 
 
However, I think I read somewhere that this was partly because a congressman 
arranged to have a million(?) copies printed and distributed cheaply or 
free, at taxpayers' expense. Can someone confirm this? 
 
And can any economist beat Henry George's record for the number of people 
who turned out for his funeral? (Hundreds of thousands; he died during his 
second campaign bid to be mayor of New York, 1897.) 
 
Roger Sandilands