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

by Ernest Freeberg

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674057201
• ISBN13: 9780674057203
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.9"