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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Vogel, Sarah, author.     Subjects     United States. Farmers Home Administration -- Management.     Farm foreclosures -- North Dakota -- Case studies.     Family farms -- North Dakota -- Case studies.     Agricultural credit -- Government policy -- United States.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Vogel, Sarah, author.       by title:      The farmer's lawyer ...         MARC Display

The farmer's lawyer : the North Dakota nine and the fight to save the family farm / Sarah Vogel. by Vogel, Sarah, author. New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. Subjects United States. Farmers Home Administration -- Management.   Farm foreclosures -- North Dakota -- Case studies.   Family farms -- North Dakota -- Case studies.   Agricultural credit -- Government policy -- United States. ISBN:  9781635575262 (hardcover) : 1635575265 (hardcover) Description:  xxi, 407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Requests:  1 Summary:  In the early 1980s, farmers were suffering through the worst economic crisis to hit rural America since the Great Depression. Land prices were down, operating costs and interest rates were up, and severe weather devastated crops. Instead of receiving assistance from the government as they had in the 1930s, these hardworking family farmers were threatened with foreclosure by the very agency that Franklin Delano Roosevelt created to help them. Desperate, they called Sarah Vogel in North Dakota. Sarah, a young lawyer and single mother, listened to farmers who were on the verge of losing everything and, inspired by the politicians who had helped farmers in the '30s, she naively built a solo practice of clients who couldn't afford to pay her. Sarah began drowning in debt and soon her own home was facing foreclosure. In a David and Goliath legal battle reminiscent of A Civil Action or Erin Brockovich, Sarah brought a national class action lawsuit, which pitted her against the Reagan administration's Department of Justice, in her fight for family farmers' Constitutional rights. It was her first case. A courageous American story about justice and holding the powerful to account, The Farmer's Lawyer shows how the farm economy we all depend on for our daily bread almost fell apart due to the willful neglect of those charged to protect it, and what we can learn from Sarah's battle as a similar calamity looms large on our horizon once again.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 353.00823 Vo Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 353.00823 Vo Transit Request Add Copy to MyList Waianae Public Library Adult Nonfiction 353.00823 Vo Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waikiki-Kapahulu Public Library Adult Nonfiction 353.00823 Vo Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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