Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin (Southern Biography Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (972 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807162086 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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A founding member of that National Organization for Women, Margolin culminated her government service as a champion of the Equal Pay Act, arguing and winning the first appeals. But her personal relationships never eclipsed her numerous professional accomplishments, among them defending the constitutionality of the New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority, drafting rules establishing the American military tribunals for Nazi war crimes in Nuremberg, and, on behalf of the Labor Department, shepherding through the courts the child labor, minimum wage, and overtime protections of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Despite her beginnings in an orphanage and her rare position as a southern, Jewish woman pursuing a legal profession, Margolin became an important and influential Supreme Court advocate. Margolin's passion for her work and focus on meticulous preparation resulted in an outstanding record in appellate advocacy, both in number of cases and rate of success. By prevailing in 21 of her 24 Supreme Court arguments Margolin shares the elite company of only a few dozen women and men who attained such high standing as Supreme Court advocates.. According to Trestman, Margolin worked hard to be
mel goldberg said What a wonderful book about an unsung hero. What a wonderful book about an unsung hero! Time and again, Margolin broke glass, and not so glass, ceilings at Tulane, Yale, in her work at the Labor Department and through her advocacy before the Supreme Court. It is a tale worth telling. And it is one that is particularly timely.Trestman does Margolin proud. Beautifully written, showing not only . Five Stars M. Patricia Smith Great book about a women we don't know but should appreciate.. She didn't take shorthand . M. Feldman “Fair Labor Lawyer,” by Marlene Trestman, is a scholarly biography of an unusual woman, Bessie Margolin (1909-1996), a brilliant lawyer whose advocacy helped establish the labor policies of the New Deal. Later in her career, Margolin, who gradually came to see herself as a feminist, oversaw the U.S. Labor Department’s enforcement of
Marlene Trestman is former special assistant to the Maryland attorney general and former law instructor at Loyola University of Maryland's Sellinger School of Business & Management. A New Orleans native, Trestman had a personal relationship with Margolin that grew from common childhood experiences.
Trestman's biography introduces her to a new and wide audience. But Ms. Trestman's determination 'to see Bessie Margolin written back into history.'''--Baltimore Sun''Margolin's accomplishments are a towering example regardless of the circumstances of her birth, but as a Southern woman raised in New Orleans' Jewish Orphans' Home, they're all the more remarkable.'' --New Orleans Advocate. It fulfills Ms. Trestman has produced an account of Margolin's professional and personal life that is prodigiously researched, well-crafted and highly readable. Ms. ''Despite her achievements, Margolin has been largely forgotten