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The People’s Lawyer: The Life and Times of Frank J. Kelley, the Nation’s Longest-Serving Attorney General (Painted Turtle)

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After several years as a small-town lawyer in Alpena, Frank J. Kelley was once hastily appointed Michigan’s attorney general at the end of 1961. He never suspected that he would continue to serve until 1999, a national record. Throughout that time, he worked with everyone from John and Bobby Kennedy to Bill Clinton and jump-began the careers of dozens of politicians and public figures, including U.S. Senator Carl Levin and Governors James Blanchard and Jennifer Granholm. In The People’s Lawyer: The Life and Times of Frank J. Kelley, the Nation’s Longest-Serving Attorney General, Kelley and co-creator Jack Lessenberry reflect on the personal and professional journey of the so-referred to as godfather of the Michigan Democratic Party Throughout his implausible life and thirty-seven years in Place of job.

The People’s Lawyer chronicles Kelley’s early life as the son of second-generation Irish immigrants, whose father, Frank E. Kelley, began out as a Detroit saloon keeper and became a respected Democratic Party leader. Kelley tells of changing into the first of his circle of relatives to go to college and law school, his early days as a lawyer in northern Michigan, and how he transformed the Place of job of attorney general as an active crusader for the people. Among other accomplishments, Kelley describes establishing the first Place of job of Consumer Protection in the country, taking on Michigan’s public utility companies, helping to end racially restrictive real estate practices, and helping to initiate the multibillion-dollar Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement in 1998.

Kelley frames his work against a backdrop of the social and political upheaval of his times, including the 1967 Detroit riots, the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, and the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. All those interested in American history and legal history will enjoy this highly readable, entertaining account of Kelley’s life of public service.

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