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