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[quote=Anonymous]Lane Kirkland: Champion of American Labor
This highly laudatory biography tells a -fascinating story not only of the man who was a major force in America's labor movement but also of the era (1979-95) in which he served as head of the AFL-CIO. An uncompromising and tenacious leader of America's working people, Kirkland advocated freedom for the world's oppressed. With access to primary sources, Puddington describes how Kirkland was born into the segregationist anti-union South in 1922 and went on to become one of the most eloquent and effective spokesmen for workers worldwide. His philosophy was shaped by the New Deal, and he felt that government intervention, intelligently applied, would bring justice to the poor and level the playing field for ordinary people. In paying tribute to Kirkland at his memorial service in 1999, Henry Kissinger remarked, "He did his duty as he saw it, not for accolades. Freedom was his mission; social justice, his cause; opposition to totalitarianism, his vocation." [/quote]

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