Introduction by / Romain Rolland

The child who never grew up -- The world is a toy -- Johnny Haines and the Pigeons -- Little gene and the Civil War -- Gene's friend takes a trip to the moon -- Gene has a talk with his mother -- Gene decides to get a job -- He goes to his first night's work -- Gene becomes an engineer -- Gene fights a duel with sleep -- A Sunday evening in the debs family -- Gene gets a new job -- Gene begins his great poem -- The blizzard -- Gene delivers his lecture -- Gene tries politics for a while --- Gene gets lost in a dream -- Soldiers, quakers, pacifists, and other fighters -- Gene and the railroad strike -- A shameful page in our history -- Gene Debs becomes a socialist -- Gene tries to educate the American people -- Gene debs and the World War -- The way of peace leads to a prison cell -- Starting on the long journey -- The end of the Journey -- The song of the prisoners -- The last days of his life -- Gene debs is dead, long live his dreams --

This book is intended to be the first in a series of biographies of the heroes of peace. It is my intention to bring before the minds of the children of the world a new set of human values. The education thus far has been based on militarism and on the exploitation of the weak by the strong. By means of these biographies I hope, in my humble way, to begin to build a foundation for a new type of education, --an education based upon peace and upon the mutual cooperation of the citizens of all the nations toward the building of a better world." From the foreword.

From the library of Roscoe and Oletta Proctor.