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Called to Justice: The Life of a Federal Trial Judge (Law in the American West)

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Early in his judicial career, U.S. District Pass judgement on Warren K. Urbom was once assigned a yearlong string of criminal trials arising from a seventy-one-day armed standoff between the American Indian Movement and federal law enforcement at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. In Called to Justice Urbom provides the first in the back of-the-scenes have a look at what quickly became some of the significant series of federal trials of the twentieth century. Yet Wounded Knee was once only one set of monumental cases Urbom presided over all the way through his years at the bench, a set that in turn forms but one chapter in a remarkable life story.

Urbom’s memoir begins on a small farm in Nebraska all the way through the dustbowl 1930s. From making it through the Great Depression and drought to serving in World War II, working summers for his father’s dirt-moving business, and going to school at the G.I. Bill, Urbom’s experiences constitute a classic American story of benefiting from opportunity, inspiration, and somewhat luck. Urbom gives a candid account of his time as a trial lawyer and his early plans to transform a minister—and of the effect both had on his judicial career. His story offers a rare inside view of what it means to be a federal Pass judgement on—the nuts and bolts of conducting trials, weighing evidence, and making decisions—but also considers the questions of law and morality, all within the framework of a life well lived and richly recounted.

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