Adversary in the House

"Adversary in the House" (1947) is a biographical novel based on the life of Eugene V. Debs and of his wife Kate, who was opposed to socialism. [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 page 88)]

The book is Irving Stone's portrayal of Eugene V. Debs's "tempestuous relationship with a wife who rejects the very values he holds most dear". [http://education.boisestate.edu/bdavies/adversay_in_the_house.htm]

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