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With passion : an activist lawyer's journey / by Michael Meltsner.

Publisher's description: "With Passion" tells the improbable story of an unsung hero of the civil rights movement who thought of himself as a miscast lawyer but ended up defending peaceful protesters, representing Mohammad Ali, suing Robert Moses, counseling Lenny Bruce, bringing the...

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Main Author: Meltsner, Michael, 1937- (Author)
Other title:With passion : an activist lawyer's life.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Northport, New York : Twelve Tables Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Meltsner, Michael, > 1937-
Lawyers > United States > Biography.
Civil rights workers > United States > Biography.
Civil rights workers.
Lawyers.
United States.
Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • War
  • A most of the time only child
  • Another kind of war
  • Manhattan
  • Robert
  • Ira
  • Anxiety
  • Women
  • The village
  • Zabar’s
  • The way forward
  • The odd beginnings of a career
  • What it was like before Roe v. Wade
  • Archeology in an ancient land
  • Coming to the Law
  • TM
  • Jim
  • Americus
  • Tales of reform : failure
  • Tales of reform : success
  • The difference between rights and remedies
  • My hour with Lenny
  • Serendipity
  • Babs
  • The clinic
  • Violence and the word
  • Charleston and beyond
  • Epilogue.

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