Democracy's prisoner : Eugene V. Debs, the great war, and the right to dissent / Ernest Freeberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freeberg, Ernest.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialists--United States--Biography.

Socialists.

Freedom of speech--United States--History.

Freedom of speech.

Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926.

Debs, Eugene V.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. In this book, 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. In this story of democracy on trial, Freeberg excavates an extraordinary episode in the history of one of America's most prized ideals.

Contents:

List of illustrations

Prologue: free speech campaign

Dangerous man

Never be a soldier

War declarations

Canton picnic

Cleveland

Appeal

Long trolley to prison

Moundsville

Atlanta Penitentiary

An amnesty business on every block

Candidate 9653

The trials of A. Mitchell Palmer

The last campaign

Lonely obstinacy

Free speech and normalcy

Last flicker of the dying candle

Epilogue: amnesty and the birth of civil liberties

Notes

Archives consulted

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-366) and index.

ISBN:

9780674037236

0674037235

OCLC:

503446234