The farmer's lawyer : the North Dakota Nine and the fight to save the family farm /
Vogel, Sarah,
The farmer's lawyer : the North Dakota Nine and the fight to save the family farm / Sarah Vogel. - Large print edition. - 701 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm - - Thorndike Press large type biography and memoir .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 651-698).
Part I--The sowing. The platform ; The first farmer ; Cottonwood haven ; Cut, slash, chop ; The starve out ; A little bit of nothing -- Part II--The growing. The organizers ; Problem case ; The farmer's lawyer ; Here once the embattled farmers stood ; Time to make some law ; Exhaustion ; Competency of counsel -- Part III--The reaping. Bitter harvest ; If we eat, you shall eat ; Springing the trap ; Unity ; The dead chicken argument ; The front steps of the courthouse ; Nothing but the truth ; Wouldn't Bill Langer be proud ; Discovery ; The Biblical injunction -- Part IV--The saved seed. There is one bright spot where the people rule -- Epilogue--Strength from the soil.
"In the early 1980s, farmers were suffering through the worst economic crisis to hit rural America since the Great Depression. Desperate, they called Sarah Vogel, a young lawyer. Sarah brought a national class action lawsuit, which pitted her against the Reagan administration's Department of Justice, in her fight for family farmers' rights. A story about justice and holding the powerful to account, The Farmer's Lawyer shows how the farm economy we all depend on almost fell apart what we can learn from Sarah's battle as a similar calamity looms large on our horizon once again"--
9781432896751 143289675X
Vogel, Sarah.
Farmers--North Dakota.
Farmers--United States.
Agriculture--Economic aspects--North Dakota.
Agricultural laws and legislation--United States.
Farm foreclosures--North Dakota.
Debtor and creditor--North Dakota.
Liens--North Dakota.
North Dakota.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Large type books.
The farmer's lawyer : the North Dakota Nine and the fight to save the family farm / Sarah Vogel. - Large print edition. - 701 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm - - Thorndike Press large type biography and memoir .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 651-698).
Part I--The sowing. The platform ; The first farmer ; Cottonwood haven ; Cut, slash, chop ; The starve out ; A little bit of nothing -- Part II--The growing. The organizers ; Problem case ; The farmer's lawyer ; Here once the embattled farmers stood ; Time to make some law ; Exhaustion ; Competency of counsel -- Part III--The reaping. Bitter harvest ; If we eat, you shall eat ; Springing the trap ; Unity ; The dead chicken argument ; The front steps of the courthouse ; Nothing but the truth ; Wouldn't Bill Langer be proud ; Discovery ; The Biblical injunction -- Part IV--The saved seed. There is one bright spot where the people rule -- Epilogue--Strength from the soil.
"In the early 1980s, farmers were suffering through the worst economic crisis to hit rural America since the Great Depression. Desperate, they called Sarah Vogel, a young lawyer. Sarah brought a national class action lawsuit, which pitted her against the Reagan administration's Department of Justice, in her fight for family farmers' rights. A story about justice and holding the powerful to account, The Farmer's Lawyer shows how the farm economy we all depend on almost fell apart what we can learn from Sarah's battle as a similar calamity looms large on our horizon once again"--
9781432896751 143289675X
Vogel, Sarah.
Farmers--North Dakota.
Farmers--United States.
Agriculture--Economic aspects--North Dakota.
Agricultural laws and legislation--United States.
Farm foreclosures--North Dakota.
Debtor and creditor--North Dakota.
Liens--North Dakota.
North Dakota.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Large type books.