PREVIEW: EUGENE V. DEBS: JAILED CANDIDATE: In "1920: The Year of Six Presidents," historian David Pietrusza recounts how President Wilson imprisoned socialist leader Eugene V. Debs for opposing America's entry into World War I after April 1917. Despite hi

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PREVIEW: EUGENE V. DEBS: JAILED CANDIDATE: In "1920: The Year of Six Presidents," historian David Pietrusza recounts how President Wilson imprisoned socialist leader Eugene V. Debs for opposing America's entry into World War I after April 1917. Despite his cell in an Atlanta prison, Debs managed a vigorous presidential campaign. More later.

undated Eugene V. Debs of the Socialist Party of America
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