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Democracy’s Prisoner

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

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$30.00 • £24.95 • €27.00

ISBN 9780674057203

Publication Date: 10/15/2010

Short

392 pages

17 halftones

World

Related Subjects

  • 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

Awards & Accolades

  • 2010 Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award, Intellectual Freedom Round Table of the American Library Association
  • 2008 David J. Langum, Sr., Prize in American Legal History, Langum Charitable Trust
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