Category: Biography Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
ISBN-10: 0807162086
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 280
Copyright: Mar. 1, 2016
ISBN-13: 9780807162088
Price: $28.25 (eBook)
Before there was a Notorious RBG, there was an Audacious Bessie M, trailblazing New Deal attorney and Supreme Court advocate.
From New Orleans's Jewish orphanage in which Bessie Margolin was raised, to the Supreme Court in which she won an astounding 21 of 24 arguments she presented to champion the wage and hour rights of American workers, Fair Labor Lawyer traces the fascinating journey of this legal trailblazer and reluctant feminist. Along the way, with law degrees from Tulane and Yale, Margolin overcame anti-Semitism and sexism to help shape 20th century American history: she defended the New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority; drafted the rules for Nazi war crimes trials in Nuremberg; and on behalf of the Labor Department was the nation's top legal enforcer of equal pay for women. Fair Labor Lawyer has garnered advance praise from NOW's National PresidentTerry O'Neill and from noted author/historians including Alice Kessler-Harris, Jean Harvey Baker and Laura Kalman who, respectively, described the book as "an inspiring read," "outstanding biography," and "a page-turner!"
The story of Ron Hull, paralyzed in a surgical accident back in the dreaded polio epidemic days, was able to overcome most of the stigma and stereotypes and "pass for normal" for 30 years. As Ron's paralysis increased gradually through the next 20
This book is a collection of short stories that depict events in Author's life while she lived in Romania, then in Greece, and last in America. It's a beautiful and very sincere account of a young woman's life and comming to age.
