Pursuing Justice: Lee Pressman, the New Deal, and the CIO

by Gilbert J. Gall

Book Overview

As the nation's most prominent labor lawyer during a period of ascending labor power, Lee Pressman served as General Counsel of the Congress of Industrial Organizations from 1933 to 1948. Working among the movers and shapers of American politics, he was also one of the most highly-placed, though covert, adherents of communism in public life during the New Deal-Fair Deal years. This book chronicles Pressman's fascinating public life and examines his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791441032
• ISBN13: 9780791441039
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 363 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.