Adversary in the House explained

Adversary in the House (1947) is a biographical novel based on the life of prominent socialist Eugene V. Debs and of his wife Kate, who was opposed to socialism.^[1] The book is Irving Stone's portrayal of Debs's "tempestuous relationship with a wife who rejects the very values he holds most dear".^[2]

Notes and References

1. 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)
2. Web site: Davies . Blaine . Adversary in the House by Irving Stone . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20061014105429/http://education.boisestate.edu/bdavies/adversay_in_the_house.htm . 2006-10-14 . 2024-08-13 . US History II . Boise State University.