Today the problem of securing individual freedom, democracy, peace and prosperity is a problem in organizing world government, and to that problem this book brings a fresh solution backed by fresh analysis. Six months after this book was first published, the war it sought to avert began. The present, shorter version of Union Now appears in answer to a rapidly rising demand, and after publication of 15 editions of the unabridged version in less than a year. It shows how the war has been convincing people, even more than did the threat of war, that the book’s proposal of Inter-democracy Federal Union is timely to a high degree.