Anthony Lewis has a very interesting essay in the latest New York Review of Books discussing Ernest Freeberg's Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs ... that Wilson was a liberal-minded president." ...

author of "Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, The Great War, and The Right To Dissent." "He liked to quote Thomas Paine. He was a great admirer of the abolitionists like John Brown and Wendell ...

author of “Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, The Great War, and The Right To Dissent.” “He liked to quote Thomas Paine. He was a great admirer of the abolitionists like John Brown and ...

In the annals of American socialism, the name of Eugene V ... Mass murderers. If the “liberal” Wilson had his way, the aging Debs would have stayed in prison for the full sentence—and ...

His opponent wasn’t Donald Trump, but Eugene V ... declaring democracy a lie if African Americans were not afforded full political rights. Debs, meanwhile, was coming off his fifth campaign ...

To learn more about his run, I called up Ernest Freeman, a professor at the University of Tennessee and author of “Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent.” ...

This account of the trial and jailing of Eugene V. Debs for sedition in opposing WWI will be read by many as a warning for our times, yet it stands on its own as solid history. Remarkably ...