Philip Dru: Administrator: a Story of Tomorrow, 1920-1935 is futuristic political novel by Edward Mandell House, an American diplomat, politician and presidential foreign policy advisor. His book's hero leads the democratic western U.S. in a civil war against the plutocratic East, and becomes the dictator of America. Dru as dictator imposes a series of reforms that resemble the Bull Moose platform of 1912 and then vanishes.
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Mandell House selected the first 7 members of the Federal Reserve Board in 1914. He was trusted by Rockefeller and Morgan.
What I have heard of this book... the US is thrown into an economic depression...civil war breaks out...martial law is enacted...and Dru becomes dictator.
Sound like a familiar course we may be on?
Has anyone read this book?