with a new Foreword by Willie Nelson An exquisitely written American saga.
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..
It was her first case.
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.
Sarah began drowning in debt and soon her own home was facing foreclosure.
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.
Desperate, they called Sarah Vogel in North Dakota.
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.
Land prices were down, operating costs and interest rates were up, and severe weather devastated crops.
In the early 1980s, farmers were suffering through the worst economic crisis to hit rural America since the Great Depression. --Sarah Smarsh The r emarkably well told and heartfelt (John Grisham) story of a young lawyer\'s impossible legal battle to stop the federal government from foreclosing on thousands of Family farmers.
with a new Foreword by Willie Nelson An exquisitely written American saga
