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Fair labor lawyer : the remarkable life of New Deal attorney and Supreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin /

Title
Fair labor lawyer : the remarkable life of New Deal attorney and Supreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin / Marlene Trestman.
Author
Trestman, Marlene, 1956-
Publication
  • Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2016]
  • ©2016

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Description
xvii, 243 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Southern biography
Uniform Title
Southern biography series.
Subject
  • Labor lawyers > United States > Biography
  • Lawyers > United States > Biography
  • Margolin, Bessie
  • New Deal, 1933-1939 > Biography
  • United States. Department of Labor > Officials and employees > Biography
  • Women lawyers > United States > Biography
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-232) and index.
Contents
Childhood, 1909-1925 -- College and law school, 1925-1933 -- Summer with a suffragist, 1933 -- Defending the New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933-1939 -- Bachelor girl -- Wages and hours, 1939 1946 -- An interesting adventure in Nuremberg, May-December 1946 -- Return to the Labor Department, 1947-1961 -- Equal opportunities, personal and public, 1961-1972 -- Retirement and last years, 1972-1996.
ISBN
  • 9780807162088
  • 0807162086
  • 9780807162095 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2015035232
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library