Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist

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University of Illinois Press, 1982 - 437 páginas

Eugene Debs (1855-1926) is regarded by many as American history's premier labor advocate. He was the leader of the Socialist party, five-time Socialist candidate for president, outspoken on the rights of all workers, and a persistent defender of America's democratic traditions.

Nick Salvatore's acclaimed biography offers a major reevaluation of Debs, the movements he launched, and his belief in American Socialism as an extension of the nation's democratic traditions. He also shows the relationship between Debs's public image and his private life as child, sibling, husband, and lover. Salvatore's Debs--weaknesses intact--emerges as a complex man, frustrated and angered by the glaring inequities of a new economic order, and willing to risk his freedom to preserve the essence of democratic society.

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NATIVE SON 18551889
1
An Earthly Paradise
4
The BlueEyed Boy of Destiny
23
A Citizen A Workingman
56
THE MEANING OF CITIZENSHIP 18901900
83
Transcending the Brotherhoods
88
An Injury to One
114
What Is to Be Done?
147
The WorkingClass Republic
220
Arise Comrade Debs
262
A RADICALS LEGACY 1920
303
A Species of Purging
308
Epilogue
342
Notes
347
Bibliography
403
Index
425

SOCIALIST CITIZEN 19011919
179
A Ripe Trade Unionist
183

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Nick Salvatore is Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and a professor of American studies at Cornell University. He is the author of We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webberand other books.

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