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UNDERDOG is the memoir of one of the youngest passengers on the MS St. Louis, escaping Nazi Germany to Holland and eventually settling in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Against All Odds, Fighting for Justice is the story of a human rights lawyer representing all the prominent civil rights leaders in Milwaukee during the 1960s and decades thereafter. The world's worst serial murderer, Jeffrey Dahmer, writing from Columbia Correctional Institution on February 4, 1994, had this to say about Thomas Jacobson's efforts to make him pay for his gruesome slaughter of seventeen victims. Dear Mr. Jacobson, Congratulations are in order. Because of your laziness, you've single-handedly ruined the proposed deal we had on the table. You were aware from the beginning that in order for the deal to be accepted, we wanted all 17 families to benefit from it. Now I heard that you wanted to waste more of your client's money by suing my dad - what a foolish shyster you are! If you insist on continuing to lead your clients down the garden path, chasing after ""willow the wisps,"" then so be it. Let me assure you that your efforts will fail. You're simply too incompetent to handle something like that. I'll be writing to your clients and letting them know that you're nothing but an incompetent ""twit"" who is only interested in ""using"" them. Sincerely, Jeff Jacobson obtained from Dahmer one-half million dollars for eleven of the victim families. The book follows the life of accomplished Milwaukee Civil Rights Lawyer Thomas M. Jacobson from his escape from Nazi Germany, his journey to becoming a nationally recognized civil rights lawyer, to seeking justice in one of the nations highest profile cases in the 1980s: Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

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Thomas Jacobson's book ""Underdog"" is fascinating from cover to cover. In his 80 plus years, he has experienced more than the vast majority of people would ever dream of: from the turbulent start ofhis family's flight from the horrors of Hitler's Germany, to the US rejection back to an uncertain future in Europe, to his activism as an attorney at the height of the civil rights movement, to his negotiating the aftermath of one most heinous mass murders in our country's history. Tom's life story is a history lesson we can all learn from. Tom happily shares his story without any of the resentment that would come from such early childhood trauma. Instead of animosity, Tom stood up and fought for what he believed in, whatever the consequences-a lesson we can all learn from especially in these perilous times when our democracy is under such stress. William Wordsworth described the ""happy warrior"" as a courageous and moral man who was able to stand true to his virtues even in the midst of distress. I would change the title ""Underdog"" to ""Milwaukee's Happy Warrior: A Life Well Lived"".

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