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Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs

di Marguerite Young

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"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."--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."--Jacket.… (altro)
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This book was purchased for a History course, American. It is one of the most unusual books I have ever opened. It is unique! I cannot say I read the entire thing. The author is a poetess of some note and the language is very poetic. It is also convoluted and excessive. I wondered how the other, much younger, students coped with it.
There is, as a result, a great deal of information of the life and times of Eugene Debs and his father and every one they met! The senor Debs was born in France about 1830. As a young man he met a girl from his village whom he was forbidden to marry. The young couple elope to America and settled in Terre Haute Indiana. Here Eugene himself was born in 1855. There is a great deal of interesting information about the settling of the Midwest, especially Indiana and Illinois. We learn why the Wabash was important, which most of us know from "On the Banks of the Wabash", a song in our music lessons. As young Debs grows up he becomes involved in the Socialist movement. He is eventually the Foremost leader of the Socialist movement in America. He ran for President on the Socialist ticket many times.
This book could be improved and the information it contains preserved by re-issuing it with better editing. Perhaps as three books! There is ample material.
Now that I have written this review I think I will not give it away, but retrieve it and read it in small bites! ( )
  Xylyne29 | Jul 15, 2012 |
"I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopia, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered. " - M. Young. Book brought to publication by Chs. Ruas.
  AsYouKnow_Bob | Apr 7, 2008 |
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"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."--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."--Jacket.

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