The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs Volume II: The Rise and Fall of the American Railway Union, 18921896
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The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs Volume II: The Rise and Fall of the American Railway Union, 18921896
By (Author) Tim Davenport
Edited by David Walters
Haymarket Books
Haymarket Books
19th May 2020
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Trade unions
335.3
Physical Properties
Paperback
656
Width 139mm, Height 215mm
Description
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. Eugene V. 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.
Reviews
"Tim Davenport and David Walters have given us, as they did with the first volume of the series, a real treasure, and a restoration." Paul Buhle, for DSAUSA.org "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." Mark Lause
Author Bio
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 isThe American Exceptionalism of Jay Lovestone and His Comrades [2015],co-edited with Paul LeBlanc and reissued as a Haymarket Books paperback in 2018.
