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Eugene V. Debs is perhaps best known for his 1920 run for President from prison - that election marked his fifth attempt at the White House. But he was also one of America's most successful proponents of socialism.

It was the German sociologist Werner Sombart who famously once asked "Why is there no socialism in the United States?". Historian and writer Professor Jill Lepore tells the story of the socialist from the town of Terre Haute in the American Midwest who changed the political dial in early twentieth century America.. She examines the influence and legacy of the long-time Socialist Party leader and explores the role of socialism in American politics then and now.

Presenter:
Jill Lepore, Professor of Political History at Harvard University and staff writer at The New Yorker.

Contributors:
William E. Huntington Professor of History at Boston University Bruce Schulman
Professor of History at Indiana State University Lisa Phillips
Professor of History at the University of Tennessee and author of Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War and the Right to Dissent Ernest Freeberg

Reader:
Demetri Goritsas

Producer:
Camellia Sinclair for 麻豆约拍 Audio, Bristol
Studio engineers:
Caitlin Gazeley and Suzy Robins

Archive used:
WTHI-TV at 70, WTHI-TV; YouTube; 25 Apr 2024
Eugene V. Debs: Trade Unionist, Socialist, Revolutionary 1855-1926, Folkways Records, 1979
Woodrow Wilson: On Labor, Library of Congress, 1912