Michael J. Lansing

Michael J. Lansing is Professor of History at Augsburg University in Minneapolis. He is the author of Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics (2015) and A Police State: Politics and Public Safety in Minneapolis, 1945-2020 (2027). He is now starting to work on a book titled Floyd B. Olson and the Farmer-Labor Movement. Finally, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Winds of Peace Foundation, which works to expand cooperative organizing among rural people across Central America.