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Law of the Jungle: The $19 Billion Legal Battle Over Oil in the Rain Forest and the Lawyer Who’d Stop at Nothing to Win

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The gripping story of one American lawyer’s obsessive crusade—waged at any cost—against Big Oil on behalf of the poor farmers and indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest.

Steven Donziger, a self-styled social activist and Harvard educated lawyer, signed on to a budding class action lawsuit against multinational Texaco (which later merged with Chevron to develop into the third-largest corporation in The united states). The suit sought reparations for the Ecuadorian peasants and tribes people whose lives were affected by decades of oil production near their villages and fields.  All over twenty years of legal hostilities in federal courts in Manhattan and remote provincial tribunals in the Ecuadorian jungle, Donziger and Chevron’s lawyers followed fierce no-holds-barred rules. Donziger, a larger-than-life, loud-mouthed showman, proved himself a master orchestrator of the media, Hollywood, and public opinion. He cajoled and coerced Ecuadorian judges on the theory that his noble ends justified any means of persuasion. And finally, he won an unlikely victory, a $19 billion judgment against Chevon–the biggest environmental damages award in history.  But the company refused to give up or compromise. As an alternative, Chevron targeted Donziger personally, and its counter-attack revealed damning evidence of his politicking and manipulation of evidence. All of sudden the verdict, and decades of Donziger’s single-minded pursuit of the case, began to resolve.   
 
Written with the texture and flair of the most productive narrative nonfiction, Law of the Jungle is an unputdownable story in which there are countless sufferers, a vast region of ruined rivers and polluted rainforest, but very few heroes.

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