Democracy's Prisoner

Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent

Ernest Freeberg

  • 2008 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History
  • Finalist, 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, Biography Category
  • List of Illustrations
  • Prologue: Free Speech Campaign
  1. Dangerous Man
  2. Never Be a Soldier
  3. War Declarations
  4. Canton Picnic
  5. Cleveland
  6. Appeal
  7. Long Trolley to Prison
  8. Moundsville
  9. Atlanta Penitentiary
  10. An Amnesty Business on Every Block
  11. Candidate 9653
  12. The Trials of A. Mitchell Palmer
  13. The Last Campaign
  14. Lonely Obstinacy
  15. Free Speech and Normalcy
  16. Last Flicker of the Dying Candle
  • Epilogue: Amnesty and the Birth of Civil Liberties
  • Notes
  • Archives Consulted
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
  • Cover: Democracy's Prisoner

Ernest Freeberg is Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee.