Treuhaft, Robert Edward

Treuhaft, Robert Edward
▪ 2002

      American lawyer (b. Aug. 8, 1912, New York, N.Y.—d. Nov. 11, 2001, New York City), crusaded for civil rights and numerous other liberal causes and dedicated himself to fighting social injustice. He was especially noted for having urged his wife, Jessica Mitford, to write her funeral industry exposé, The American Way of Death (1963), and for having helped her research and write it.

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