The book is
Irving Stone's portrayal of
Eugene V. Debs's "tempestuous relationship with a wife who rejects the very values he holds most dear".
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Footnotes
^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)