| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.3

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Canada and the United States

Gilbert J. Gall. Pursuing Justice: Lee Pressman, the New Deal, and the CIO. (SUNY Series in American Labor History.) Albany: State University of New York Press. 1999. Pp. xiii, 363. $21.95.

This biography delivers a succinct and richly textured study of Lee Pressman (1906–1969), the New Deal lawyer, political activist, and onetime Communist who served as general counsel to the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) from 1936 to 1948. Gilbert J. Gall has ably used Pressman's life as a means of exploring many broader subjects in mid-twentieth-century American history, including the impact of radical lawyers in the New Deal and the American labor movement and the factors that led many liberals to embrace and later reject Communism. By delving deeply into a wide range of sources, including labor union collections, FBI files, and oral histories, Gall has compensated for the paucity of Pressman's personal papers. 1

After graduating second in his class at Harvard Law School, where Alger Hiss was a Law Review colleague, Pressman briefly practiced law at a corporate firm in New York before joining the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) at the outset of the New Deal. In discussing Pressman's futile efforts to have the AAA to do more to assist impoverished farmers, Gall provides a useful case study of the tensions in the New Deal between radical reformers and moderate regulators. . . .

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