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The Bending Cross - by Ray Ginger (Paperback)

Name: The Bending Cross - by Ray Ginger (Paperback)
Brand: Haymarket Books
SKU: 83059895
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Let the people take heart and hope everywhere, for the cross is bending, the midnight is passing, and joy cometh with the morning.
About the Author: Ray Ginger was the author of many books on American history.
540 Pages
Biography + Autobiography, Historical

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About the Book

The classic biography of Debs, one of the most important thinkers and activists in US.

Book Synopsis

Let the people take heart and hope everywhere, for the cross is bending, the midnight is passing, and joy cometh with the morning. --Eugene Debs in 1918

Orator, organizer, self-taught scholar, presidential candidate, and prisoner, Eugene Debs' lifelong commitment to the fight for a better world is chronicled in this unparalleled biography by historian Ray Ginger. This moving story presents the definitive account of the life and legacy of the most eloquent spokesperson and leader of the U.S. labor and socialist movements.

With a new introduction by Mike Davis.

Review Quotes

"The best biography of Eugene Debs yet published .A valuable contribution to the history of American political and economic radicalism."
--American Historical Review

"Masterful."
--Michael Harrington

"The Bending Cross offers us an old-fashioned and, yes, incorrigibly romantic ethos for activism; an antidote to jaded postmodernist cynicism, made compelling and coherent by the example of Debs's own life. It is ironic that the Socialist leader was imprisoned for disloyalty, ' since what most distinguished Debs was his moral steadfastness and unbreakable loyalty to the labor movement."
--Mike Davis, from the Introduction

"The Bending Cross is a beautiful and important book, even after all these years and the further accumulation of scholarship on the life of Eugene V. Debs. Ray Ginger, a socialist scholar of the heart as well as the mind, captured the real Debs. Hurrah for this reprinting!"
--Paul Buhle, co-scriptwriter of Eugene V..Debs: A Graphic Biography

About the Author

Ray Ginger was the author of many books on American history. Mike Davis is the author of many books on American politics, the environment and urban issues, including the bestselling Ecology of Fear.

Specifications

Dimensions (Overall): 8.4 Inches (H) x 5.58 Inches (W) x 1.21 Inches (D)

Weight: 1.35 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 540

Genre: Biography + Autobiography

Sub-Genre: Historical

Publisher: Haymarket Books

Format: Paperback

Author: Ray Ginger

Language: English

Street Date: January 1, 2007

TCIN: 83059895

UPC: 9781931859400

Item Number (DPCI): 247-33-7519

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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