17. I have taken this quote from Howard Zinn, The Twentieth Century, cited earlier, p. 70. Zinn’s history is both unique and splendid, a history written “from the bottom up,” filled with data, analysis, and quotations which, were the people of this country to read and absorb them, could be “the start” – or the revival – “of something good.” Debs ran for president as a socialist five times, and in 1912 received 900,000 votes, the most ever received by a socialist in the United States. For those interested, there is a nice collection of essays by Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays (New York: Dover, 1969), which has a good introduction by Richard Drinnon. There is also a useful “reader” on some of the radical voices in our history: Harvey Goldberg (ed.), American Radicals: Some Problems and Personalities (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1957). It has statements by or about more than a dozen mild or strong radical critics of our society – Heywood Broun, Vito Marcantonio, Big Bill Haywood, Daniel DeLeon, et al.