Writings of Eugene V Debs

Writings of Eugene V Debs
Author: Eugene V. Debs
Publisher: Red & Black Pub
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2009-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781934941485

A collection of speeches, pamphlets and writings from Eugene V Debs, from 1888 to 1925. Beginning his career as an organizer for the American Railway Union, Debs ran for President on the Socialist Party ticket five times, polling up to 6 percent of the total vote in 1912. Jailed in 1919 for an antiwar speech in Ohio, Debs ran for President from his jail cell in 1920, polling almost a million votes, 3.4 percent of the total votes cast.

Eugene V. Debs

Eugene V. Debs
Author: Nick Salvatore
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1982
Genre: Socialist
ISBN: 9780252011481

Traces the life of the controversial American socialist and social reformer and assesses his role in American history.

The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs

The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs
Author: Eugene Victor Debs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781608465484

An extensive compilation of articles, speeches, press statements, and open letters by American socialist Eugene V. Debs, this book is the first in a five volume series that assembles much of Debs's work for the first time in a single place. The collection makes readily accessible approximately 150 documents by one of the pivotal figures in the labor movement. Illuminating nineteenth century working-class history, particularly the complex and shifting situation in the transportation industry, this volume provides a basis for deeper understanding of Debs and his role later during the glory days of the Socialist Party of America.

Democracy’s Prisoner

Democracy’s Prisoner
Author: Ernest Freeberg
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0674027922

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 Debs from an Atlanta jailhouse to the White House was part of a wider national debate over the right to free speech in wartime. Debs was one of thousands of Americans arrested for speaking his mind during the war, while government censors were silencing dozens of newspapers and magazines. When peace was restored, however, a nationwide protest was unleashed against the government’s repression, demanding amnesty for Debs and his fellow political prisoners. Led by a coalition of the country’s most important intellectuals, writers, and labor leaders, this protest not only liberated Debs, but also launched the American Civil Liberties Union and changed the course of free speech in wartime. The Debs case illuminates our own struggle to define the boundaries of permissible dissent as we continue to balance the right of free speech with the demands of national security. In this memorable story of democracy on trial, Freeberg excavates an extraordinary episode in the history of one of America’s most prized ideals.

Walls and Bars

Walls and Bars
Author: Eugene Victor Debs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1927
Genre: Prisons
ISBN:

Eugene Debs, labor organizer and leader of the Socialist Party, describes his experience at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was imprisoned at the age of 63 for 32 months for criticizing the government's jailing of Americans who opposed World War I.

Eugene V. Debs Speaks

Eugene V. Debs Speaks
Author: Eugene Victor Debs
Publisher: New York : Pathfinder Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1970
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Speeches by the pioneer U.S. socialist agitator and labor leader, jailed for opposing Washington's imperialist aims in World War I. Debs speaks out on capitalism and socialism; anti-immigrant chauvinism; how anti-Black racism weakens the labor movement; Rockefeller's massacre of striking miners at Ludlow, Colorado; and more. ?Speeches ? of one of America's pioneer socialists. Ranging in subject matter from race prejudice to antiwar sentiment (the latter speech ? helped send him to Federal prison), these ` exhortations? demonstrate the dynamic appeal of Debs as a platform speaker.' Choice

Eugene V. Debs Reader

Eugene V. Debs Reader
Author: Eugene Victor Debs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Social conflict
ISBN: 9780850366136

The Collection of writings and speeches by one of the most radical of America's early 20th century leaders which brings to life a once powerful socialist movement. Book jacket.

The Bending Cross

The Bending Cross
Author: Ray Ginger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781931859400

The classic biography of Debs, one of the most important thinkers and activists in US.