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The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs Volume II - by Tim Davenport & David Walters (Paperback)

The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs Volume II - by  Tim Davenport & David Walters (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Debs (1855-1926) was a trade unionist, magazine editor, and public orator widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of American socialism. This series provides activists and scholars with a definitive trove of his best work that remains readable, informative, and inspiring.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Tim Davenport and David Walters have extracted the essential core of Debs's life work, illustrating his intellectual journey from conservative editor of the magazine of a racially segregated railway brotherhood to his role as the public face and outstanding voice of social revolution in early twentieth-century America. Well over 1,000 Debs documents will be republished as part of this monumental project, the vast majority seeing print again for the first time since the date of their original publication.</p><p><strong>Eugene V. Debs </strong>(1855-1926) was a trade unionist, magazine editor, and public orator widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of American socialism.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Tim Davenport and David Walters have given us, as they did with the first volume of the series, a real treasure, and a restoration. --P<strong>aul Buhle, for DSAUSA.org</strong><br /><br />Gene Debs tirelessly urged the self-organization of working people in the United States as their only sure road to freedom. His role in the formation of the Socialist Party particularly provides lessons for our day. <strong>--Mark Lause</strong></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Tim Davenport, a resident of Corvallis, Oregon and a member of DSA, launched his Early American Marxism website (www.marxisthistory.org) in 2004 and has been a volunteer with Marxists Internet Archive for more than a decade. Writing as "Carrite," he has started more than 300 articles at Wikipedia and improved hundreds of others on topics relating to labor history and political biography. He is a member of the Organization of American Historians, Historians of American Communism, the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and the Labor and Working-Class History Association. His previous book is <em>The "American Exceptionalism" of Jay Lovestone and His Comrades [2015], </em> co-edited with Paul LeBlanc and reissued as a Haymarket Books paperback in 2018.</p>

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