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search. you can also share anything you see on booktv.org easily by clicking share on the upper left side of the page and selecting the format. booktv streams live on line for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. up next on booktv, after words with guest host neela bannerjee, energy and environment reporter for the los angeles times. this week award-winning journalist laurence leamer and his late book, the price of justice: a true story of greed and corruption. in it the new york times best-selling author tells the story of the legal battle to hold massey energy accountable to the west virginia communities that it dominated while supplying almost half of the nation s coal-generated electric power. the program is about an hour. host: welcome to after words. today we re fortunate enough to have laurence leamer, best selling author, who s recently published a very engrossing book call the price of justice. on its face the ....
readers into the various thing it covers. guest: it s a 14 are year struggle two pittsburgh lawyers, take on this case of this small mine owner western virginia who is driven into bankruptcy by don blankenship, the ceo of massey energy. they win a $50 million judgment, and the struggle they get turned down, blankenship buys the court, the supreme court in west virginia, basically. he reaches the united states supreme court. they get so involved and they think that blankenship is such a bad man, they become consumed in bringing him down. they take other cases involving him and he is like this predator capitalist, from the early yeares 240th century. been reborn in our time. and they fight him all these years until they have some measure of victory. host: what i found so many things i found very interesting about it. and one of the things i wanted to ask you, you start with a very personal prologue, and it s about how you gotted into in this part of the world and in t ....