Law of The Jungle-Paul M Barrett with Scott Cluthe
b'Join Scott Cluthe on FACEBOOK HERE\\xa0\\n\\nJoin the\\xa0FREE NEWSLETTER HERE\\xa0\\n\\nA FREE BOOK of Your Choice from Scott HERE\\xa0\\n\\nScott Cluthe talks with Paul M. Barrett, author of law of The Jungle Live tonight.\\n\\nBarrett\\xa0is an assistant managing editor and senior writer at\\xa0Bloomberg Businessweek.\\xa0 He is the author of the\\xa0New York Times\\xa0bestseller\\xa0Glock: The Rise of America\\u2019s Gun,\\xa0American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion, and\\xa0The Good Black:\\xa0 A True Story of Race in America.\\xa0 He lives and works in New York City.\\xa0\\n\\nThe gripping story of one American lawyer\\u2019s obsessive crusade\\u2014waged at any cost\\u2014against Big Oil on behalf of the poor farmers and indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest.\\n\\nSteven 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 become the third-largest corporation in America). 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. During twenty years of legal hostilities in federal courts in Manhattan and remote provincial tribunals in the Ecuadorian jungle, Donziger and Chevron\\u2019s lawyers followed fierce no-holds-barred rules. In the end, he won an unlikely victory, a $19 billion judgment against Chevron--the biggest environmental damages award in history.'