Background
Bool was born in England and in 1872 emigrated to Ithaca, New York, (arriving in New York New York 15 May 1872) where he lived as a businessman for 30 years before returning to England, where he died in Montacute, Somerset, in 1922.
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Henry Bool
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Bool is the author of Foreign Liberty: The World"s Thinkers and Government, Political Power and Democracy, Freedom, Company-Operation, and Society Without Government. A Discussion Between an Autocratic Democrat and a Government-By-Consent Anarchist.
Politics
While in the United States. 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, Proudhon, Thoreau, Spooner, Andrews, Warren and Tucker belong." He is most noted for opposing propaganda by the deed and communist anarchism. He also penned several essays and leaflets, including Liberty Without Invasion, Means and End of Progress, Henry Bool"s Apology Foreign His Jeffersonian Anarchism, Henry Bool"s Creed, and Who"s Who?.
