Radical Nonfiction Book Group

Our Radical Nonfiction group meets monthly to discuss titles related to the issues of history, politics, & the promise of a better world.

Radical Nonfiction Book Group with Carlo
Discusses Eugene V. Debs: A Graphic Biography by Paul Buhle and Steve Max

Led by Greenlight booksellers Mandy and Maritza, our Literature in Translation Book Group meets monthly to discuss books from around the world, with a particular focus on marginalized voices and indie presses.

For June, the group discusses Eugene V. Debs by Paul Buhle and Steve Max, a graphic biography on the titular, socialist labor legend Eugene V. Debs. A dynamic and beloved American radical, Eugene Victor Debs led the Socialist Party to federal and state office across the United States by the 1920s. Then, imprisoned for speaking out against World War I, Debs ran for president from prison on the Socialist Party ticket, receiving over 1 million votes. Debs’s life is a story of labor battles in industrializing America, of a fighting socialist politics grown directly out of the Midwest heartland, and of a distinctly American vision of socialism.