Freeberg, Democracy's Prisoner - Eugene V. Debs, The Great War And The Right To Dissent

Abstract

Any citizen, student, or teacher seeking to make sense of the post 9/11 world would do well to consult this volume on the imprisonment of perennial Socialist Party Presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs for his dissent to American participation in the First World War. Relying upon extensive archival research and an exhaustive reading of early twentieth-century periodicals, Ernest Freeberg, Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, constructs a well-written narrative of efforts on behalf of civil libertarians and free speech advocates to obtain the release of Debs and other political prisoners.