Eugene V. Debs
Subtitle: outspoken labor leader and socialist
By: Charles W. Carey, Jr
Series: Historical American biographies
Publisher: Enslow Publishers
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berkeley Heights, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780766019799
Subjects: Socialists; Labor leaders; Juvenile literature; Biography
Description: A biography of the trade union leader, political activist, and pacifist who ran five times as the socialist candidate for president.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1; title: Debs Makes a Speech -- 5 -- 2; title: Working on the Railroad -- 15 -- 3; title: The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen -- 25 -- 4; title: The American Railway Union -- 41 -- 5; title: From Democrat to Socialist -- 59 -- 6; title: Debs Runs for President -- 71 -- 7; title: Debs Goes to Prison -- 96 -- 8; title: Debs: Failure or Success?-- 113.