Democracy’s Prisoner

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Democracy’s Prisoner is written by Ernest Freeberg and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674263618 (ISBN 10) and 9780674263611 (ISBN 13).

In 1920, socialist leader Eugene V. Debs ran for president while serving a ten-year jail term for speaking against America's role in World War I. In this book, Freeberg shows that the campaign to send Debs from an Atlanta jailhouse to the White House was part of a wider national debate over the right to free speech in wartime.