Hailed by such figures as Albert Einstein, Leo Tolstoy, John Dewey, William Jennings Bryan, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the foremost thinker and leader of the Progressive movement, Henry George was an economist, social activist, public intellectual, and candidate for the New York mayoralty. This work exhibits George's characteristic lucidity, love of justice, and concern for his fellow man. In "The Crime of Poverty," Henry George summarizes his ideas concisely and powerfully by outlining the injustice of poverty and how it can be eradicated.