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The Ghost in the White House By: Gerald Stanley Lee (1862-1944) |
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SOME SUGGESTIONS AS TO HOW A HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE (WHO ARE SUPPOSED IN
A VAGUE, HELPLESS WAY TO HAUNT THE WHITE HOUSE) CAN MAKE THEMSELVES FELT
WITH A PRESIDENT HOW THEY CAN BACK HIM UP EXPRESS THEMSELVES TO HIM,
BE EXPRESSED BY HIM, AND GET WHAT THEY WANT By GERALD STANLEY LEE Author of "Crowds" and "Inspired Millionaires" " The White House is haunted by a vague helpless abstraction, by
a kind of ghost of the nation, called The People "
NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON & CO.
681 FIFTH AVENUE Copyright, 1920
BY E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY All Rights Reserved First printing May, 1920 Printed in the United States of America TO JENNETTE LEE Transcriber's Note: Chapter XXII in Book II was printed without a title.
CONTENTS
BOOK I WHAT THE PEOPLE EXPECT OF THE PEOPLE I Gist 3
II The Lonesomest Job on Earth 4
III The President and the Ghost 6
IV Real Folks and the Ghost 12
V The Ghost Receives an Invitation 16
VI What a Body for the Ghost Would be Like 20
VII The Ghost gets Down to Business 25
VIII Three Rights of Man in a Democracy The Right to Think 27
IX The Right to be Waited On 32
X The Right to Whisper 36
XI The Right to Whisper Together 39
XII The Right to Trust Somebody 41
XIII The Right to Vote All Day 46
XIV The Skilled Consumer 48
XV Sample Democracies 51
XVI The Town Pendulum 54
XVII The National Listening Machine 58
XVIII How the National Listening Machine Will Work 62
XIX Making a Right Start 64
XX Up to the People 66
XXI The Way for a Nation to Speak Up 68
BOOK II WHAT EACH MAN EXPECTS OF HIMSELF I G. S. L. to Himself 75
II If I Were a Nation 78
III What the Mahogany Desk is Going to Do 81
IV Rules for Being Lied to 85
V Getting One Man Right 87
VI Getting Fifty Men Right 89
VII Engineers in Folks 91
VIII The Great New Profession 92
IX Getting People to Notice Facts 97
X The Fool Killers 100
XI The Whisperers 102
XII Mr. Dooley, Judge Gary and Mr. Gompers 103
XIII Fooling Onseself in Politics 108
XIV Swearing Off from Oneself in Time 112
XV Technique for not Being Fooled by Oneself 117
XVI The Autobiography of a Letter 120
XVII The Man Fifty Three Thousand Post Offices Failed On 124
XVIII Causes of Being Fooled About Oneself 126
XIX Loco Mindedness 128
XX Flat Thinking. Thinking in Me Flat 131
XXI Lost Mindedness 133
XXII 137
XXIII Self Discipline by Proxy 139
XXIV Machine Mindedness 142
XXV New Brain Tracks in Business 143
BOOK III TECHNIQUE FOR A NATION'S GETTING ITS WAY I Big in Little 147
II Conscious Control of Brain Tracks 149
III What is Called Thinking 151
IV Living Down Cellar in One's Own Mind 156
V Being Helped up the Cellar Stairs 160
VI Reflections on the Stairs 166
VII Helping Other People up the Cellar Stairs 169
VIII Helping a Nation up the Cellar Stairs 173
IX Technique for Labor in Getting its Way 175
X Technique for Capital in Getting its Way 179
XI Philandering and Alexandering 183
XII The Factory that Lay Awake All Night 185
XIII Listening to Jim 191
XIV The New Company 196
XV The Fifty Cent Dollar 198
XVI The Business Man, the Professional Man and the Artist 200
XVII The News Man 203
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