A New Debs For a New Era
The tagline “Before Bernie Sanders, before Zohran Mamdani, America’s favorite socialist was Eugene Debs” adorns the back flap of Shawn Gude’s American Socialist. It’s an obvious hook to entice the double-digit percentage of socialist-curious voters turning up in surveys, but it actually sells its subject—who was so much more than a perennial political candidate—short.