The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene Victor Debs

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.

• Eugene V. Debs: A Graphic Biography
• The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
• Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
• The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America
• Capital : A Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics) (Volume 2)
• A Brief History of Neoliberalism
• Writings of Eugene V Debs: A Collection of Essays by America's Most Famous Socialist
• Labor and Freedom: The Voice and Pen of Eugene V. Debs
• Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist (The Working Class in American History)
• Eugene V. Debs Reader: Socialism and the Class Struggle