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The gripping account of one American lawyer's obsessive crusade - waged at any cost - against Big Essential oil with respect to the poor farmers and indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest. Steven Donziger, a self-styled sociable activist and Harvard informed lawyer, signed on to a budding category action lawsuit against multinational Texaco (which later merged with Chevron to be the third-largest corporation in America). The suit sought reparations for the Ecuadorian peasants and tribes people whose lives were influenced by decades of oil development near their villages and areas. During twenty years of legal hostilities in federal government courts in Manhattan and remote control provincial tribunals in the Ecuadorian jungle, Donziger and Chevron's legal professionals followed brutal no-holds-barred rules. Donziger, a larger-than-life, loud-mouthed showman, proven himself a get better at orchestrator of the multimedia, Hollywood, and general population impression. He cajoled and coerced Ecuadorian judges on the idea that his noble ends justified any method of persuasion. And in the end, he gained an unlikely victory, a $19 billion judgment against Chevon - the largest environmental damage award ever sold. But the company refused to surrender or compromise. Instead, Chevron targeted Donziger individually, and its counter-attack unveiled damning proof his politicking and manipulation of information. Suddenly the verdict, and decades of Donziger's single-minded quest for the case, started to unravel. Written with the structure and flair of the greatest narrative nonfiction, Regulation of the Jungle can be an unpauseable story where there are countless victims, a massive region of ruined streams and polluted rainforest, but hardly any heroes.

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Publisher	Random House Audio
Language	English
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DATE	2014-09
Author	Paul M. Barrett

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