North Dakota’s Nonpartisan League is remembered for the populist surge in state politics a century ago. Among the most well-known of the League’s legacy are the state-owned Bank of North Dakota and the State Mill and Elevator, overseen by the Industrial Commission. The League-controlled Legislature also passed a law banning vaccination mandates, which stood for more than 50 years.
Part memoir, part history by a lawyer who fought foreclosures on family farms in the 1980s. "The Farmer s Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family