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Democracy’s Prisoner : Eugene V. Debs, The Great War, And The Right To Dissent

Attribution
Ernest Freeberg
Publication Details
Book, Harvard University Press, 2008
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Description
In a beautifully crafted narrative, Ernest 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. Led by a coalition of the country?s most important intellectuals, writers, and labor leaders, this protest not only liberated Debs, but also launched the American Civil Liberties Union and changed the course of free speech in wartime. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Author
- Freeberg, Ernest
Subject
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
ISBN
- 9780674027923
- 0674027922
LCCN
- 2007043807
Open Library ID
- /b/OL11125199M