A nonfiction legal thriller that traces the fourteen-year
struggle of two lawyers to bring the most powerful coal baron in
American history, Don Blankenship, to justice
Don Blankenship, head of Massey Energy since the early 1990s,
ran an industry that provides nearly half of America's electric
power. But wealth and influence weren't enough for Blankenship and
his company, as they set about destroying corporate and personal
rivals, challenging the Constitution, purchasing the West Virginia
judiciary, and willfully disregarding safety standards in the
company's mines--in which scores died unnecessarily.
As Blankenship hobnobbed with a West Virginia Supreme Court
justice in France, his company polluted the drinking water of
hundreds of citizens while he himself fostered baroque vendettas
against anyone who dared challenge his sovereignty over coal mining
country. Just about the only thing that stood in the way of
Blankenship's tyranny over a state and an industry was a pair of
odd-couple attorneys, Dave Fawcett and Bruce Stanley, who undertook
a legal quest to bring justice to this corner of America. From the
backwoods courtrooms of West Virginia they pursued their case all
the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and to a dramatic decision
declaring that the wealthy and powerful are not entitled to
purchase their own brand of law.
"The Price of Justice" is a story of corporate corruption so
far-reaching and devastating it could have been written a hundred
years ago by Ida Tarbell or Lincoln Steffens. And as Laurence
Leamer demonstrates in this captivating tale, because it's true,
it's scarier than fiction.
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