<p>"Tim Davenport and David Walters have given us, as they did with the first volume of the series, a real treasure, and a restoration." —P<strong>aul Buhle, for DSAUSA.org</strong><br />
"Gene Debs tirelessly urged the self-organization of working people in the United States as their only sure road to freedom. His role in the formation of the Socialist Party particularly provides lessons for our day." <strong>—Mark Lause</strong></p>

Tim Davenport and David Walters have extracted the essential core of Debs’s life work, illustrating his intellectual journey from conservative editor of the magazine of a racially segregated railway brotherhood to his role as the public face and outstanding voice of social revolution in early twentieth-century America. Well over 1,000 Debs documents will be republished as part of this monumental project, the vast majority seeing print again for the first time since the date of their original publication.

Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) was a trade unionist, magazine editor, and public orator widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of American socialism.

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Eugene V. Debs Selected Works will provide activists and scholars with a definitive trove of his best work that remains readable, informative, and inspiring.

 

Lengthy introductions to each volume help put Debs’s complex intellectual and political journey into context, telling his tale from humble origins as the ambitious son of French immigrant parents to his place as iconic leader of the American socialist movement and victim of political repression by the administration of Woodrow Wilson during the years of World War I. Vast swaths of previously unknown writing will become readily accessible, providing new insight to Debs as leader of the seminal 1894 Pullman Strike, his place as an agitational journalist and public speaker, and his fulsome support of the first phase of the Russian revolution."

 

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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781608467709
Publisert
2020-05-12
Utgiver
Haymarket Books
Høyde
215 mm
Bredde
139 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
656

Biografisk notat

Tim Davenport, a resident of Corvallis, Oregon and a member of DSA, launched his Early American Marxism website (www.marxisthistory.org) in 2004 and has been a volunteer with Marxists Internet Archive for more than a decade. Writing as “Carrite,” he has started more than 300 articles at Wikipedia and improved hundreds of others on topics relating to labor history and political biography. He is a member of the Organization of American Historians, Historians of American Communism, the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and the Labor and Working-Class History Association. His previous book is The “American Exceptionalism” of Jay Lovestone and His Comrades [2015], co-edited with Paul LeBlanc and reissued as a Haymarket Books paperback in 2018.