Lane Kirkland: Champion of American Labor Format:Hardcover created by an all star team 9781642505849 created by an all star team of longtime locals who dig deep to reflect the place they find so special Kirkland believed that the voice of working Americans should be heard through their representatives in the labor movement and This meticulously researched biography also reveals how the positive transforming events of the New Deal in the South and Kirkland's enlistment in World War II shaped his lifelong political convictions that the United States possessed the strength and the wealth to expand freedom throughout the world and promote the welfare of its own people Few have achieved more for the American worker than Lane Kirkland: fewer still have received less credit than Lane for their pivotal roles