Democracy's prisoner [[electronic resource] ] : Eugene V. Debs, the great war, and the right to dissent / / Ernest Freeberg

• Autore: Freeberg Ernest
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (393 p.)
• Disciplina: 335/.3092; B
• Soggetto topico: Socialists - United States; Freedom of speech - United States - History
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-366) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. In this story of democracy on trial, Freeberg excavates an extraordinary episode in the history of one of America's most prized ideals.
• Titolo autorizzato: Democracy's prisoner
• ISBN: 0-674-03723-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778162103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II