Wastelands: The True Story Of Farm Country On Trial (libro E

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Nombre: Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial (Libro en Inglés)
Marca: Knopf

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"Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and told with the air of suspense that few writers can handle, Wastelands is a story I wish I had written." From the Foreword by John Grisham

The once idyllic coastal plain of North Carolina is home to a close-knit, rural community that for more than a generation has battled the polluting practices of large-scale farming taking place in its own backyard. After years of frustration and futility, an impassioned cadre of local residents, led by a team of intrepid and dedicated lawyers, filed a lawsuit against one of the worlds most powerful companiesand, miraculously, they won.

As vivid and fast-paced as a thriller, Wastelands takes us into the heart of a legal battle over the future of Americas farmland and into the lives of the people who found the courage to fight.

There is Elsie Herring, the most outspoken of the neighbors, who has endured racial slurs and the threat of a restraining order to tell the story of the waste raining down on her rooftop from the hog operation next door. There is Don Webb, a larger-than-life hog farmer turned grassroots crusader, and Rick Dove, a riverkeeper and erstwhile military judge who has pioneered the use of aerial photography to document the scale of the pollution. There is Woodell McGowan, a quiet man whose quest to redeem his familys ancestral land encourages him to become a better neighbor, and Dr. Steve Wing, a groundbreaking epidemiologist whose work on the health effects of hog waste exposure translates the neighbors stories into the argot of science. And there is Tom Butler, an environmental savant and hog industry insider whose whistleblowing testimony electrifies the jury.

Fighting alongside them in the courtroom is Mona Lisa Wallace, who broke the gender barrier in her small southern town and built a storied legal career out of vanquishing corporate giants, and Mike Kaeske, whose trial skills are second to none.

With journalistic rigor and a novelists instinct for story, Corban Addison's Wastelands captures the inspiring struggle to bring a modern-day monopoly to its knees, to force a once-invincible corporation to change, and to preserve the rightsand restore the heritageof a long-suffering community.

Review

[Addisons] skills at storytelling are evident here . . . His research is rigorous and he builds the story to a fascinating denouement worthy of a suspense novel a good suspense novel.
Minneapolis StarTribune

In Wastelands, Corban Addison tells the extraordinary story of how some North Carolina residents stood up to a meatpacking company polluting their communities ... [A] legal thriller, full of energy and compassion ... [and] a damning portrait of how we feed ourselves ...
Eric Schlosser, The New York Times Book Review

[F]illed with charismatic, colorful characters ... lovingly and sincerely wrought ... [T]he satisfaction of a book like Wastelands lies in a truly rare kind of redemption. Goliath is slain. The good guys win. And Addison has the pleasure of being the verdicts messenger.
Leslie Pariseau, The Los Angeles Times

Wastelands is the true story of an epic battle of power and justice, good and evil, with heroes to remind us that there is virtue in the world.
Miwa Messer, Barnes & Noble Poured Over Podcast

In this book, Addison turns a novelists eye to the thorny complexities of a real legal case. The prose is lyrical, the cast of characters jump to life on the page, and the result is a captivating account of how a small group of citizens bring a huge corporation to justice.
Jonathan Harr, author of the #1 national bestseller A Civil Action

Gripping . . . Corban Addison chronicles a grassroots effort in North Carolina to push back against the environmental damage done by large-scale farming . . . For anyone concerned with the natural world.
InsideHook

Deeply researched and crafted like a legal thriller . . . Corban Addison turns to nonfiction to tell this harrowing story

CARACTERÍSTICAS PRINCIPALES:

-Idioma: Inglés
-Envío: Desde EE. UU.
-Libro Impreso y Nuevo

MÁS DETALLES:

Tiempo de entrega: 10 días
Peso del paquete: 1 kg
Medidas: 5 cm x 22 cm x 27 cm cm
Material: Papel
Modelo: 9780593320822
Meses de garantía: 1
Garantía: Por defecto de fabricación
Condición: Nuevo
Color: Multicolor
Nombre de color: Multicolor
ASIN: 0593320824
País de producción: United States
Encuadernado: Pasta dura
Editorial: Knopf
Titulo del libro: Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial (Libro en Inglés)
Autor: Addison, Corban
Fecha de publicación: 2022
Idioma: Inglés
Edición: 1
Número de páginas: 464
ISBN-13: 9780593320822
Edad mínima sugerida: 6
Genero musical: Literatura Universal
Contenido del paquete: 1 pieza
SKU: 9780593320822