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The gripping story of one American lawyers obsessive crusadewaged at any costagainst 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 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 Chevrons lawyers followed fierce no-holds-barred rules.
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Paul M. Barrett is an internationally recognised vertebrate palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum, London, working primarily on dinosaurs.
