Harp Song for a Radical (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Marguerite Young
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1855-1885
- Setting: The United States
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Communism or communists, Nineteenth century, Civil War, Labor unions
- Locales: United States
In poet James Whitcomb Riley’s elegy to his Terre Haute neighbor, one can sense the almost saintly gentleness of disposition about Eugene V. Debs that caused fellow Indiana native Marguerite Young to devote a quarter century of her intellectual life to understanding the constancy of his devotion to the cause of freedom for industrial workers. The railway unionist was a product of environmental factors that imbued in him a romantic spirit as well as a hatred of injustice. Riley wrote:
And there’s Gene Debs—a man at stands
And jes’ holds out in his two...
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