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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
Author: Ernest Freeberg
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 bran...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674027923
ISBN-10: 0674027922
Publication Date: 5/31/2008
Pages: 392
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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