Democracy's Prisoner : : Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent / / Ernest Freeberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Freeberg, Ernest,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Prologue: Free Speech Campaign --; Chapter 1. Dangerous Man --; Chapter 2. Never Be a Soldier --; Chapter 3. War Declarations --; Chapter 4. Canton Picnic --; Chapter 5. Cleveland --; Chapter 6. Appeal --; Chapter 7. Long Trolley to Prison --; Chapter 8. Moundsville --; Chapter 9. Atlanta Penitentiary --; Chapter 10. An Amnesty Business on Every Block --; Chapter 11. Candidate 9653 --; Chapter 12. The Trials of A. Mitchell Palmer --; Chapter 13. The Last Campaign --; Chapter 14. Lonely Obstinacy --; Chapter 15. Free Speech and Normalcy --; Chapter 16. Last Flicker of the Dying Candle --; Epilogue: Amnesty and the Birth of Civil Liberties --; Notes --; Archives Consulted --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674037236; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674037236
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ernest Freeberg.

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.