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Title: A Measure of Endurance: The Unlikely Triumph of Steven Sharp by William Mishler ISBN: 0-375-41133-X Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Young Man's Courage
Comment: This is an extraordinary narrative in its subject matter and in its writing. As the author, William Mishler, says, it is "a contemporary American story well worth telling, " and he relates this true drama with a sympathy and an energy that do full justice to the enduring courage and resilience of its hero. We are carried along vividly from a quiet, small town in Oregon to a contentious courtroom in Wisconsin, where a dramatic trial takes place. Steven Sharp lives in aptly named Eagle Valley in Eastern Oregon, where the rhythms of country life and hunting and fishing form his character and his destiny. He suffers a horrendous accident with a defective tractor and baler, in which he loses both arms in an attempt to clear some hay from the baler. His agony is described in stark detail as he desperately yet deliberately uses razor-sharp metal in the machine to sever both arms that are being mercilessly pulled into the baler; he then finds the courage to cauterize the stumps on one of the red-hot rollers. Steven tells his story to the author and in the courtroom with a calm and modest conviction that he did what had to be done to save his life and his sanity. He earns our immense admiration and empathy for this act of bravery and for his persistence in helping his team of lawyers bring a successful lawsuit against the Case Corporation of Wisconsin. Case brought all their wealth and power in an attempt to deny Steven his due, but owing to a committed team of Minneapolis lawyers and Steven's and his family's perseverance, Case lost in court and in subsequent appeals. A note at the end of the book indicates that three years after the final verdict, Case has done absolutely nothing to warn their customers of the life-threatening dangers of their machine. William Mishler, a fine poet and writer, becomes deeply involved in the human and legal aspects of the drama, which he describes with a superb attention to detail in an intensely absorbing narrative of great imaginative power
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Title: Trial and Error: The Education of a Courtroom Lawyer by John C. Tucker ISBN: 0786711132 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: 22 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: David Ball on Damages: A Plaintiff's Attorney's Guide for Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Cases by David Ball ISBN: 1556817177 Publisher: Natl Inst for Trial Advocacy Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $55.95 |
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Title: The Smoking Gun : Day by Day Through a Shocking Murder Trial with Gerry Spence by Gerry Spence ISBN: 0743246969 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Closing Arguments: The Last Battle by Mike Papantonio, Fred Levin, Martin Levin ISBN: 0964971135 Publisher: Seville Publishing Co., Inc. Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.00 |
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Title: Pain Killer : A Wonder Drug's Trail of Addiction and Death by Barry Meier ISBN: 1579546382 Publisher: Rodale Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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