![]() ![]() Young touches on matters as diverse as the great American railway strike of 1877, the poetic careers of Heinrich Heine and of James Whitcomb Riley, Joseph Smith's discovery of the Book of Mormon, and the workings of the Russian secret police under Czar Nicholas I. Though it does recount certain episodes from Debs' early life, its delirious digressions range freely across the entire length and breadth of nineteenth-century America and Europe. But in fact Harp Song for a Radical is like no other work of history or biography ever written. ![]() The book purports to be a biography of the great American Socialist leader Eugene Debs (1855-1926). Marguerite Young, author of that immense dreamscape of a novel, Miss Macintosh, My Darling (1965), worked on Harp Song for a Radical for nearly thirty years, leaving it unfinished at the time of her death in 1995. ![]() Harp Song for a Radical Marguerite Young, Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs ![]()
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