The Fall of the House of Zeus: The Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer By Curtis Wilkie

My daddy used to say that Pigs get fat, but hogs get slaughtered. This book illustrates that saying. Dickey Scruggs and his lawyerly ilk were really getting fat until they decided to further rig the justice system. Then they tried to bribe an honest Judge, and ended up The Fall of the House of Zeus: The Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer The Fall of the House of Zeus: The Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer, by Curtis Wilkie, is not a fast nor a particularly easy read. But, boy, is it fascinating! Wilkie tells the story of Dickie Scruggs, a Mississippi lawyer who came The Fall of the House of Zeus: The Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer Scruggs is such an unpleasant person I gave up midway through the book. I also found the incestuous nature of Alabama state politics depressing. A remarkable number of important public officials and lobbyists not only went to the University of Alabama but were in one The Fall of the House of Zeus: The Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer

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Having lived and worked alongside the principal characters of Curtis Wilkies novel it was like going to an old time family reunion. Curtis has written an outstanding description of how greed can be blinding and all encompassing. The Fall of the House of The Fall of the House of Zeus: The Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer This is the second time I've read this book. It is so emblematic of what goes on not only in large cities but also in small towns and is rarely uncovered in the scope as is shown in this account. It covers what can happen, escalate and encapsulate those who take The Fall of the House of Zeus: The Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer Curtis Wilkie has had a remarkable career as a journalist, from his days as a cub reporter at the Clarksdale Press Register to his work for the Boston Globe and now as a professor at Ole Miss. He is a born story teller and the Fall of the House of Zeus is a wonderful work The Fall of the House of Zeus: The Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer Amazing detail and vivid characterizations carries the reader through the legal, political, and social world of American jurisprudence. This story brings to life the degree of struggle in combating corruption within the government and our justice system, as well as the age The Fall of the House of Zeus: The Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer Especially for Mississippians, this is an enlightened view into corrupt justice and corrupt officials. There are so many corrupt Ole Miss lawyers involved that, if one didn't know a few, you would picture the Ole Miss Law School as a nest for teaching corrupt lawyers. The The Fall of the House of Zeus: The Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer