Assuming the Risk: The Mavericks, the Lawyers, & the Whistle-Blowers Who Beat Big Tobacco

Orey, Michael, and Crey, Michael

ISBN 10: 0316664898 / ISBN 13: 9780316664899

Published by Little Brown and Company, Boston, MA, 1999

About this Item

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 385 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. HC 272.

Seller Inventory # Alibris.0036198

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Assuming the Risk: The Mavericks, the Lawyers, & the Whistle-Blowers Who Beat Big Tobacco
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company, Boston, MA
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316664898
• ISBN 13: 9780316664899
• Binding: Hard cover
• Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

About this title

Synopsis

A washed-up actor-turned-paralegal steals a cache of internal tobacco company documents. An unreconstructed Southerner, who once burned a cross in a neighbor's yard, takes a poor black man's case against a cigarette maker to court, prays at his bedside, and weeps at his grave. A navy pilot who was nearly ordered to drop nuclear weapons on Prague returns to become a millionaire asbestos attorney. A rock-and-roll-singing, twenty-seven-year-old district attorney brings down one of the most powerful political figures in Mississippi and goes on to become the state's attorney general.

About the Author

Michael Orey covered the tobacco wars as both a writer and editor for the American Lawyer. A graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, he is now an editor at the Wall Street Journal. He lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.