Henry Bool (1846–1922) was an

American individualist anarchist Individualist anarchism in the United States was strongly influenced by Benjamin Tucker, Josiah Warren, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lysander Spooner, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Max Stirner, Herbert Spencer and Henry David Thoreau. Other important individua ...

. Bool was born in

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and in 1872 emigrated to Ithaca, NY, (arriving in New York NY 15 May 1872) where he lived as a businessman for 30 years before returning to England, where he died in Montacute, Somerset, in 1922. While in the U.S. Bool began reading and adopting the philosophy of the American individualist anarchists as his own; he said, "I am a believer in the doctrines of the individualistic school of Anarchists, to which Garrison, Emerson,

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, Spooner, Andrews,

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and

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belong." He is most noted for opposing

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and communist anarchism. Bool is the author of ''For Liberty: The World's Thinkers and Government, Political Power and Democracy, Freedom, Co-Operation, and Society Without Government.'' He also penned several essays and leaflets, including ''Liberty Without Invasion, Means and End of Progress'', ''Henry Bool's Apology For His Jeffersonian Anarchism'', ''Henry Bool's Creed'', and ''Who's Who? A Discussion Between an Autocratic Democrat and a Government-By-Consent Anarchist''.

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''Henry Bool’s Apology for His Jeffersonian Anarchism''
by Henry Bool (1901)
''Liberty Without Invasion, Means and End of Progress''
by Henry Bool (1898) 1922 deaths American anarchists English anarchists British libertarians Individualist anarchists 1846 births {{Anarchist-stub