Books: Leftward

EUGENE V. DEBS—Me Alister Coleman —Grcenbcrg ($3.50). From the sultry summer of 1894 when he led the great Pullman strike in Chicago to the bitter Christmas Eve in 1921 when he walked free from the U. S. penitentiary at Atlanta, Eugene Victor Debs was a name to anger conservative businessmen throughout the land, to hearten the consciously downtrodden. Behind the name was a tall lanky blue-eyed man, rapidly going bald, with a genius for friendship, a heart emotionally soft, a darting forefinger, a tongue afire...

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