1999, ISBN: 0679427570

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[EAN: 9780679427575], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: NY. 1999. Knopf.], Jacket, black hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. ed… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780679427575], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: NY. 1999. Knopf.], Jacket, black hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~first edition so stated. first printing ( sd & nap). xix+599p+ colophon. chronology. afterword. editorial note. index.deckled foredge (looks "hand cut"). biography. american history. world history.labor history. politics. IWW. socialism. world war i anti~war movement. sedition. prison. presidential politics. ~ An extraordinary literary accomplishment, thirty~five years in the making, from the greatly admired author of Miss MacIntosh, My Darling ("A work of stunning magnitude and beauty"~New York Times Book Review): a biography of Eugene Victor Debs, the country's first great labor leader. 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. Here are Generals Sheridan and Custer, heroes of the Civil War, fighting the Indians in the West and the workers in the mines, the factories, and on the railroads . Allan Pinkerton, the radical weaver from Scotland who came to the New World and created an agency dedicated to destroying labor organizations. Presidents Lincoln, Grant, Cleveland, and Wilson appear. We see the dreamers, the reformers, the crusaders, among them Susan B. Anthony and Sojourner Truth. Here are Henry James Sr., who educated his children according to the tenets of Fourier; James Whitcomb Riley, author of "Little Orphant Annie"; James McNeill Whistler, whose father built a railroad for the czar of Russia; Samuel Gompers, head of the Federation of Labor; the governor of Illinois, who refused to call in the army to break the Pullman strike, or the "Debs strike" as it came to be called. Men and women, high and low, are caught up in the struggle to maintain ideals, in the fight for the rights and dignity of the individual that forged the American identity and ever afterward characterized American culture. Marguerite Young takes us into the world of the men who led the American multitudes west before the Civil War~and shows how these pioneers were influenced by the French Revolution's Saint~Simon and Fourier, and then by the German idealists Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx, and Wilhelm Weitling, who visited secular and religious settlements across the United States. 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. We see the fierce struggle between the classes~and Debs in the thick of the fight~as the American promise opens up for the men and women in the factories, in the mills, in the stockyards. We see Debs the worker becoming a political leader, becoming a reformer, becoming the voice of the workingman, becoming the founder of American Socialism. Debs, reviled and loved; Debs with the look of a plain man, an austere country doctor, becoming a mythic hero of the age. A mesmerizing dual portrait of a man and a century., Books<

1999, ISBN: 9780679427575

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Hardcover. 1999. 1st Edition. 8vo 599pp . Fine in Fine DJ. Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926) , was a colorful and eloquent spokesman for the American labor movemen… Mehr…

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Hardcover. 1999. 1st Edition. 8vo 599pp . Fine in Fine DJ. Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926) , was a colorful and eloquent spokesman for the American labor movement and for socialism. He formed the American Railway Union (ARU) in 1893 as an industrial union for all railroad workers ., Alfred A. Knopf, 1999, 5<

ISBN: 9780679427575

Knopf. Used - Very Good. Hardcover A well-cared-for item that has seen limited use but remains in better than average cosmetic condition. The item is complete, and without major damage.… Mehr…

Knopf. Used - Very Good. Hardcover A well-cared-for item that has seen limited use but remains in better than average cosmetic condition. The item is complete, and without major damage. It may have limited signs of use. Packed with care, shipped promptly., Knopf, 3<

1999, ISBN: 9780679427575

Knopf, 1999. First Edition. Hardback, Dustjacket. Like New, slight wear to cover., Knopf, 1999, 5