FOUNDING FATHER
veryone needs a man like Atticus Finch in their corner. Since Harper Lee published her semi-autobiographical novel in 1960, Finch, the Alabama lawyer, has become a folk hero and an embodiment of progressive American values. There’s the Gregory Peck performance you’re no doubt familiar with, a role that — for all of the actor’s other work — he seems most remembered for. Good lawyers still refer to him as a symbolic figure; public
