Hendrik Hartog is Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty, Emeritus at Princeton University. This interview is based on his new book, Nobody’s Boy and His Pals: The Story of Jack Robbins and the […]
World War I
In 1920, Eugene Debs got 1 million votes for president of the United States. He was in jail.
Today someone asked me if Donald Trump could still run for president if he is in jail. I don’t know the answer to that question, but I do know that Socialist Party candidate Eugene Debs received over 900,000 votes while […]