Eugene Debs ran for President 5 times as the candidate of the Socialist Party of America. The last being in 1920 while he was in a fe3deral penitentiary. He received nearly 1, 000, 000 votes in that election. He had been convicted by a federal court in 1918 uder the wartime espionage law because he spoke out against the war in Europe. Throughout his life he had been a tireless political and labor activist and leader. This book is his story while in prison. It is a classic view of prisons by a great American during that time period. Eugene Debs is truly an American hero. He contracted an illiness while in prison and died in 1926. A Collector's Edition. | Walls And Bars by Eugene Debs, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters