PositiveThe Wall Street Journal\"Shawn Gude aims to write him back into the nation’s history with his first book, a warm caress from an unabashed admirer ... Even so, this book—the first comprehensive Debs biography since Nick Salvatore’s Bancroft Prize-winning classic of 1982—is competently researched, colorful and occasionally moving ... Mr. Gude presents Eugene Debs as a man not without failings but ultimately heroic. In some respects, that’s fair. Debs was steadfast in support of women’s rights and racial equality ... It has been a century since Debs’s death in 1926. Will today’s boomlet of socialist euphoria resurrect him from obscurity? Mr. Gude’s book is a step in that direction. More likely, relative oblivion will remain his lot, as his wife once forced him to contemplate.\
