Noah Van Sciver is an Ignatz award-winning cartoonist who first came to comic readers' attention with his critically acclaimed, Eisner nominated comic book series Blammo. His work has appeared in Spongebob comics, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Best American Comics, as well as countless graphic anthologies. Van Sciver is a regular contributor to MAD Magazine and has created seven graphic novels including The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln, Saint Cole and the Fante Bukowski graphic novel series for Fantagraphics books.Paul Buhle, formerly a senior lecturer at Brown University, produces radical comics. He founded the SDS Journal Radical America and the archive Oral History of the American Left and, with Mari Jo Buhle, is coeditor of the Encyclopedia of the American Left. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.Steve Max, a founding member of Students for Democratic Society and for a time its parliamentarian, was a founding figure in the Midwest Academy, with Paul Booth and others, in later years a leading activist in the Democratic Socialists of America, as well as an enduring socialist in the Reform Democratic clubs of New York. He has trained thousands of unionists and is famed for his kindly leftwing sense of humor.Dave Nance is a retired public interest lawyer, a musician, and an occasional script-writer for nonfiction graphic novels.

As socialists of Debs' era might say: 'here's the ammunition.' In addition to being a delightful biography of the railroad man from Terre Haute, this is a splendid genealogy of the struggles and ideas that energize today's socialist revival. Buy an extra copy and turn on a friend or workmate.

Noah Van Sciver is an Ignatz award-winning cartoonist who first came to comic readers' attention with his critically acclaimed, Eisner nominated comic book series Blammo. His work has appeared in Spongebob comics, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Best American Comics, as well as countless graphic anthologies. Van Sciver is a regular contributor to MAD Magazine and has created seven graphic novels including The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln, Saint Cole and the Fante Bukowski graphic novel series for Fantagraphics books.Paul Buhle, formerly a senior lecturer at Brown University, produces radical comics. He founded the SDS Journal Radical America and the archive Oral History of the American Left and, with Mari Jo Buhle, is coeditor of the Encyclopedia of the American Left. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.Steve Max, a founding member of Students for Democratic Society and for a time its parliamentarian, was a founding figure in the Midwest Academy, with Paul Booth and others, in later years a leading activist in the Democratic Socialists of America, as well as an enduring socialist in the Reform Democratic clubs of New York. He has trained thousands of unionists and is famed for his kindly leftwing sense of humor.Dave Nance is a retired public interest lawyer, a musician, and an occasional script-writer for nonfiction graphic novels.

As socialists of Debs' era might say: 'here's the ammunition.' In addition to being a delightful biography of the railroad man from Terre Haute, this is a splendid genealogy of the struggles and ideas that energize today's socialist revival. Buy an extra copy and turn on a friend or workmate.