Eugene Victor Debs led the Socialist Party in the early
twentieth-century to federal and state office across the country, helped
to pioneer a fighting union politics that organized all workers, and
became the beloved figurehead of American radicalism. Imprisoned for
speaking out against World War I, Debs ran for president from prison,
receiving over one million votes. Debs's story is the story of labor
battles in industrializing America, of a socialist politics grown
directly out of the American Midwest heartland, and of a distinctly
American vision of socialism.
With the campaign of Bernie
Sanders, the rise of mass movements like Occupy and Black Lives Matter,
and the Wall Street Crash of 2008, socialism has once again made itself
felt in American politics. This graphic biography, published in
collaboration with the Democratic Socialists of America-whose growing
membership, spurred by Trump's election and Bernie Sanders' campaign,
has reached heights not seen among socialist parties since the 1920s-is
geared toward a new generation exploring socialist and working-class
radicalism in the past and the present. Noah Van Sciver's dynamic
illustrations are paired with short, accessible framing essays by Paul
Buhle, noted historian of the U.S. left, with Dave Nance and Steve Max.
Eugene V. Debs : A Graphic Biography - Noah Van Sciver, Paul Buhle, Steve Max
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