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

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Ernest Freeberg, Freeberg Ernest
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2010
• EAN: 9780674057203
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05720-3
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, United States of America, USA, Political campaigning and advertising, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Human rights, civil rights, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I