Adversary in the House: A Biographical Novel of Eugene V. Debs
A Historical, Fiction book. I can't read historical fiction without wondering how accurate the portrayal is, which often leads...
The book Stone considered his best, but most neglected, is a biographical novel based on the life of Eugene V. Debs & his wife Kate, who was opposed to socialism.[1]1. Kate Debs seemed to have been so hostile to Debs's socialist activities--it threatened her sense of middle-class respectability--that novelist Irving Stone was led to call her, in the title of his fictional portrayal of the life of Debs, the Adversary in the House. (Daniel Bell, Marxian Socialism in the United States, footnote on p. 88)
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I can't read historical fiction without wondering how accurate the portrayal is, which often leads me to avoid historical fiction. However, Irving Stone is a wonderful storyteller, so fact or fiction, his novels are a treat. The 'adversary' of the title refers to Debs' wife, Kate; whom he never should have married. Tragic. Still, it... Irving Stone was the best historical novelist I have read I enjoyed learning about Eugene Debs in the midst of a good novel that reminded me a bit of the Steinbeck of In Dubious Battle. Debs' life and his tireless promotion of worker rights and...horrors!...socialism held great resonance for me in this time and place.
