America's most successful socialist.(Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist)(Book review) From: Canadian Dimension | Date: September 1, 2007| Author: Franklin, Ray | COPYRIGHT 2007 Canadian Dimension Publication, Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist

by Nick Salvatore

University of Illinois Press, 2007

The reason I agreed to review this reissue of Nick Salvatore's fine, 1982 biography of Eugene V. Debs, America's most successful and popular socialist leader, is personal. In my college years (early 1950s), I had a short but intense involvement in the youth movement of the Communist Party U.S.A. One major reason I left was the discovery of the pre-World War I...