Stone, Irving; 1947-08-19

Description:	Letter to Marguerite Debs Cooper, 08/19/1947. Says that he has not responded to Coopers letter sooner because he has been working on a presentation for AMERICAS TOWN MEETING ON THE AIR on the subject of the competitiveness of American free enterprise abroad. Writes that Anne Roosevelt Boettinger and a banker from Phoenix, Arizona will take one position on the issue and he will take another. Assure Cooper that in this presentation he plans on plugging his book ADVERSARY IN THE HOUSE. Remarks that he knows that none of Katherine Debs money went into building her and Eugene V. Debs house but that he calls it Katherine Debs home because it represented the fulfillment of all of her ambitions. Tells Cooper that he has asked Doubleday to send her the first copy of ADVERSARY IN THE HOUSE when it is ready. Writes that he has learned that the Socialist Party of New York is having financial difficulties and will not be able to buy Eugene V. Debs house. Remarks that if only the movie people wanted to make a film out of ADVERSARY IN THE HOUSE then he would buy Eugene V. Debs house himself and turn it over to the Socialist Party.
Origin:	1947-08-19
Source:	http://indstate.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/evdc/id/11192
Collection:	Eugene V. Debs Correspondence
Subjects:	Books Motion pictures Socialist Party of the United States of America Famous Hoosiers Labor

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