Harp song for a radical
Subtitle: the life and times of Eugene Victor Debs
By: Marguerite Young ; edited and with an introduction by Charles Ruas
Contributors: Ruas, Charles
Publisher: Alfred Knopf
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 599
Subjects: Socialists; Working class; Biography
Description: "To set the stage for her protagonist, in whose struggles she saw acted out all of the conflicted forces that shaped industrial America, and to trace the roots of the American labor and socialist movements, the author opens up a sweep of history and presents an epic cast of characters."--BOOK JACKET.

"All these threads come together in the life and personality of Eugene Debs. His childhood was spent in Terre Haute, Indiana, in the pastoral America that faded into a distant golden memory after the Civil War, when the town became a center of transportation for industrial expansion.

We see Debs finding employment in the railroad yards, becoming caught up in the plight of his fellow workers, editing the union paper, traveling across the country, gathering the knowledge and acquiring the consciousness that inspired him to espouse collective action on behalf of labor, to found the Industrial Workers of the World, and to run as the Socialist candidate for president of the United States five times - three times from prison."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.