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

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Freeberg, Ernest

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (380 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780674037236
0674037235

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Democracy's prisoner.DDC classification:

335/.3092 B 22

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HX84.D3 F74 2008eb

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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.

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.

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

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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.

In English.

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