George Putnam

George Putnam may refer to:

  • George Putnam (newsman) (1914–2008), Los Angeles, California, television newsman
  • George D. Putnam (born 1948), screenwriter
  • George F. Putnam (born 1923), American historian
  • George Haven Putnam (1844–1930), American soldier, publisher, author, son of George Palmer Putnam
  • George P. Putnam (1887–1950), publisher, author, explorer, grandson of George Palmer Putnam, husband of Amelia Earhart
  • George Palmer Putnam (1814–1872), founder of the publishing firm that became G. P. Putnam's Sons
  • George Putnam, founder of Putnam Investments
  • George Putnam III, his grandson, editor and founder of The Turnaround Letter

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    Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.
    —Henry George (1839–1897)

    Even American women are not felt to be persons in the same sense as the male immigrants among the Hungarians, Poles, Russian Jews,—not to speak of Italians, Germans, and the masters of all of us—the Irish!
    —Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842–1906)