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Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches, with a Department of Appreciations

By Eugene V. Debs
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A detailed biography traces the subject's formative years and public activity, followed by a broad selection of essays, poems, and speeches that lay out arguments for socialism, critiques of the wage system, and strategies for labor organization. Topics range from personal conversion to socialist ideas and analyses of craft, industrial, and revolutionary unionism to responses to government injunctions and the conduct of strikes. Several pieces address prison labor and civil liberties. Appraisals and appreciations by contemporaries, reproductions of photographs and illustrations, and editorial notes contextualize the movement and its rhetoric for sympathetic readers.

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Eugene V. Debs

Eugene V. Debs was an influential American labor leader, political activist, and socialist orator, known for his commitment to workers' rights and social justice. He played a pivotal role in the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and was a five-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America. Debs's writings and speeches, including notable works such as "Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches, with a Department of Appreciations" and "Labor and Freedom: The Voice and Pen of Eugene V. Debs," reflect his advocacy for the labor movement and his vision for a more equitable society. His legacy continues to inspire labor rights activists and social reformers.

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