Eugene V. Debs, the great war, and the right to dissent /
First Statement of Responsibility
Ernest Freeberg.
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Cambridge, Mass. :
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Harvard University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2008.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (380 pages) :
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illustrations
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-366) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.