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Thurman Arnold

(1891–1969) Lawyer

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Thurman Arnold was a lawyer, best known for The Folklore of Capitalism.

Quick Facts About Thurman Arnold

Born
June 2, 1891
Died
November 7, 1969
Profession
Lawyer
Notable works
The Folklore of Capitalism

About Thurman Arnold

Thurman Wesley Arnold was an American lawyer best known for his trust-busting campaign as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Department of Justice from 1938 to 1943. He later served as a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Before coming to Washington in 1938, Arnold was the mayor of Laramie, Wyoming and a professor at Yale Law School, where he took part in the legal realism movement and published two books: The Symbols of Government (1935) and The Folklore of Capitalism (1937). He also published The Bottlenecks of Business (1940).

Biography source: Wikipedia

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