A Civil Action

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Summary: Superstring theory
Review: There is a man who worked for Grace just prior to this book being released who had written his own autobiography and movie screenplay adaptation of that book about his childhood experiences, the early ones which partly took place in Woburn during the time of the earliest epidemic occurrences. The man lived inthe same neighborhoods, was treated at the same hospitals and had the same diagnosises as some of the kids in the book. As a young teen the boy began exhibiting PPP(progrssive pigmented purpura, a sign of leukemia per Van Nostrand's scientific encyclopedia),rare uric acid(another leukemia sign),had a bone marrow procedure done on the hip( where a bone marrow transplant would have been done in the 1960s) and even went through a paternity test in which 9 tests were required, including the use of PCR,which detects minimal residual leukemia cells.The book and the testing was done prior to Harr's book coming out and a newspaper story was done about a year before Whitey Bulger disappeared. As a young child the boy was entrusted to state child care, where a former federal official arranged for a social security number while being the boy's guardian. Speculation has been made the boy was someone who may have been entitled to an inheritance but was shifted to state care while a guardian oversaw the boy as well as his inheritance.\par
Prior to Harr's book, which the man was unaware of when he wrote his own (which pre-dated Harr's book and describes the experiences of a handicapped,abused and neglected boy relegated to state child care),Grace suddenly terminated him but not before a government official notifid the man he was to be monitored for an unspecified duration and scope and for an undetermined cause..the man had no prior criminal record and had worked very hard while going to school and volunteering.About the time Grace terminated the man,Whitey Bulger disappeared and the man became a target for attacks by opponents who claimed he was responsible for what was happening in the Bulger case. About this time it also became apparent the man had perhaps been setup,as individuals who had befriended the man under the guise of classmates,roommates,coworkers or 'friends of a friend' seemed to be building a case against the man, as if someone involved in the Bulger case without their knowledge. Some of these individuals it has been speculated may have been associated with resident agents of the FBI in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and the Justice Department was contacted but the man was blown off.Pretense job interviews began taking place after Bulger fled in which the man was secretly videotaped at 2 separate companies, a writing sample obtained at another, probably audiotaped by interviewers in which leading questions wwere asked and much more. All on a man who had no criminal background and whose family background had been kept from him as a boy. It appeared a highly damaging profile of the man was being constructed as surety against some undesired outcome in the Whitey Bulger case.The Bulger case involved many individuals who all had ties to Middlesex county, where Woburn has been situated.

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Summary: Legal Thriller
Review: A town is plagued by a series of leukemia outbreaks which trigger an environmental lawsuit against two large corporations that are of accused polluting the water supply. Essentially an insider account of the lop-sided legal battle between the legal teams representing the town and the corporations. Superb pace and development of characters.

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Summary: all you need to know about lawyers
Review: as an example of the art of non fiction not too shabby either

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Summary: Justice?
Review: Brilliant, enlightening, enteraining, and mindful work presented here by Jonathan Harr. Harr manages to consume you in the lives of all the characters of this book.

The funny thing about the book is that it doesn't move you vicserally about changing the enviroment for the good, but moves you in a very cerebral way.