[PDF.39hr] Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent

Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent

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 | #1225061 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2010-10-15 |  2010-09-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .97 x5.82 x8.92l,1.15 | File type: PDF | 392 pages

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||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Progress for the First Amendment|By MZ|A good account of the Socialist career of Eugene Debs, the beloved leader who was jailed under the Woodrow Wilson Administration because of his opposition to the US entry in World War I, as well as his outspoken opposition to capitalist abuse. The corporate malfeasance he railed against sounds very much like what's going on today; how disc|From Publishers Weekly|This account of the trial and jailing of Eugene V. Debs for sedition in opposing WWI will be read by many as a warning for our times, yet it stands on its own as solid history. Remarkably, in 1920 Debs ran—from prison—a clever

In 1920, socialist leader Eugene V. Debs ran for president while serving a ten-year jail term for speaking against America’s role in World War I. Though many called Debs a traitor, others praised him as a prisoner of conscience, a martyr to the cause of free speech. Nearly a million Americans agreed, voting for a man whom the government had branded an enemy to his country.

In a beautifully crafted narrative, Ernest Freeberg shows that the campaign to send ...

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