
Author: Ernest Freeberg
Author info: Associate Professor of History
Publication Date: May 31, 2008
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Synopsis: Tells the story of Eugene V. Debs, a five-time Socialist Party of America candidate for President. In 1918 Debs was sentenced to 10 years in prison for violating the Espionage Act for questioning America’s entry into World War I.
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