Valley So Low (Hardcover)

Jared Sullivan

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2024

0593321111 / 9780593321119

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Hardcover. WINNER OF THE TENNESSEE BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A riveting courtroom drama about the victims of one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. historyand the country lawyer determined to challenge the notion that, in America, justice can be bought [A] tense investigative chronicle. The New YorkerFor more than fifty years, a power plant in the small town of Kingston, Tennessee, burned fourteen thousand tons of coal a day, gradually creating a mountain of ashen waste sixty feet high and covering eighty-four acres, contained only by an earthen embankment. In 2008, just before Christmas, that embankment broke, unleashing a lethal wave of coal sludge that covered three hundred acres, damaged nearly thirty homes, and precipitating a cleanup effort that would cost more than a billion dollarsand the lives of more than fifty cleanup workers who inhaled the toxins it released.Jim Scott, a local personal-injury lawyer, agreed to represent the workers after they began to fall ill. That meant doing legal battle against the Tennessee Valley Authority, a colossal, federally owned power company that had once been a famous cornerstone of President Franklin D. Roosevelts New Deal. Scott and his hastily assembled team gathered extensive evidence of malfeasance: threats against workers; retaliatory firings; disregarded safety precautions; and test results, either hidden or altered, that would have revealed harmful concentrations of arsenic, lead, and radioactive materials at the cleanup site. At every stage, Scottoutmanned and nearly brokehad to overcome legal hurdles constructed by TVA and the firm it hired to help execute the cleanup. He grew especially close to one of the victims, whose swift decline only intensified his hunger for justice. As the incriminating evidence mounted, the workers seemed to have everything on their side, including the truthand yet, was it all enough to prevail?The lawsuit that Scott pursued on the workers behalf was about their illnesses, no doubt. But it was also about whether blue-collar employees could beat the C-suite; if self-described hillbilly lawyers could beat elite corporate defense attorneys; and whether strong evidence could beat fat pocketbooks. With suspense and rich detail, Jared Sullivans thrilling account lays bare the casual brutality of the American justice system, and calls into question whetherand howthe federal government has failed its people. "This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Copyright page. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titel
Valley So Low (Hardcover)
Autor
Jared Sullivan
Verlag
Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Erscheinungsjahr
2024
Zustand
new
Einband
Hardcover
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
0593321111
ISBN-13
9780593321119

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