Miles Lord: The Maverick Judge Who Brought Corporate America to Justice

by Roberta Walburn, E.J. Koh, Athena Dixon

Book Overview

This is the story of Miles Lord (1919-2016), who rose from humble beginnings on Minnesota's Iron Range to become one of the most colorful and powerful judges in the country, described as "an unabashed Prairie populist" and "a live-wire slayer of corporate behemoths." He cut a wide swath through history on his path to the bench: coming of age alongside a cadre of young Midwestern social-gospel progressives, including Hubert H. Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517902312
• ISBN13: 9781517902315
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.9"