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In this incredible story that reads like a legal thriller, Michael Orey recounts the unprecedented defeat of big tobacco In 1985, Nathan Horton, a building contractor in rural Mississippi, developed a chronic ache in his left shoulder. A year and a half later, he was dead from lung cancer. In his final, painful months, Horton had filed suit against the manufacturer of the cigarettes he had smoked for more than thirty years. Horton, who was black, found a most unlikely lawyer to pursue his cause with near-religious zeal: Don Barrett, an arch-segregationist in his youth and an unapologetic defender of the Old South. When he took up his dying neighbor's case, Barrett knew full well that no tobacco company had ever paid a cent to anyone who claimed that smoking had harmed their health. Smokers, the cigarette makers said, assumed the risk of their habit. Now Barrett was also assuming an enormous risk, taking on the all-powerful tobacco industry.

In the end, the chain of events unleashed by Nathan Horton's suit culminated in the largest legal settlement in American history. The individuals joining forces in Mississippi included a washed-up actor-turned-paralegal who copied thousands of pages of internal company documents; a Gulf Coast lawyer whose almost accidental foray into asbestos litigation had made him a multimillionaire; and the state's maverick attorney general, who authorized a pioneering suit against the tobacco industry to make it pay for the health care costs of smoking.

In riveting detail, journalist Michael Orey tells how these people came together and did what no one else before them had: defeat the tobacco industry. Orey weaves up-close, personal accounts of their lives with a dramatic recounting of their battle against the cigarette makers, one that ended in nationwide settlements totaling more than $200 billion. Assuming the Risk is an engrossing, behind-the-scenes chronicle of one of the highest-stakes legal battles ever fought..
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This book is written specifically for those couples who have not faced the issue of affairs--and want to prevent ever having to face it. Peggy Vaughan explains the need to focus on preventing affairs before there is any threat to the marriage Challenging the assumption that couples can assume monogamy just because they intend to be monogamous, this guide reveals: --No one is exempt from having affairs disrupt their lives. --Attitudes and beliefs are not sufficient to prevent affairs. --Actions and behaviors throughout the marriage are essential. --Responsible honesty is the most important factor in prevention. --Everybody has a role to play in supporting couples' efforts to maintain monogamy, including parents and society as a whole. Peggy Vaughan is an internationally recognized expert in the field of extramarital affairs, having spent 30 years helping people through her many books and her two websites: www.dearpeggy.com and www.preventingaffairs.com..
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This beautifully crafted and solidly researched book explains why and how the United States made its first commitment to Vietnam in the late 1940s. Mark Atwood Lawrence deftly explores the process by which the Western powers set aside their fierce disagreements over colonialism and extended the Cold War fight into the Third World. Drawing on an unprecedented array of sources from three countries, Lawrence illuminates the background of the U.S. government's decision in 1950 to send military equipment and economic aid to bolster France in its war against revolutionaries. That decision, he argues, marked America's first definitive step toward embroilment in Indochina, the start of a long series of moves that would lead the Johnson administration to commit U.S. combat forces a decade and a half later.
Offering a bold new interpretation, the author contends that the U.S. decision can be understood only as the result of complex transatlantic deliberations about colonialism in Southeast Asia in the years between 1944 and 1950. During this time, the book argues, sharp divisions opened within the U.S., French, and British governments over Vietnam and the issue of colonialism more generally. While many liberals wished to accommodate nationalist demands for self-government, others backed the return of French authority in Vietnam. Only after successfully recasting Vietnam as a Cold War conflict between the democratic West and international communism--a lengthy process involving intense international interplay--could the three governments overcome these divisions and join forces to wage war in Vietnam.
One of the first scholars to mine the diplomatic materials housed in European archives, Lawrence offers a nuanced triangulation of foreign policy as it developed among French, British, and U.S. diplomats and policymakers. He also brings out the calculations of Vietnamese nationalists who fought bitterly first against the Japanese and then against the French as they sought their nation's independence. Assuming the Burden is an eloquent illustration of how elites, operating outside public scrutiny, make decisions with enormous repercussions for decades to come..
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Provides practical advice on how to gain enrollee volume by assuming global capitation from payors. Includes details on structuring globally capitated provider network for maximum efficiency and cost savings. Uses case examples. For administrators..
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