Wastelands (Record no. 102628)
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
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| International Standard Book Number | 9780593556634 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | State Library |
| Item number | 76 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) | |
| Classification number | State Library |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Addison, Corban |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Wastelands |
| Remainder of title | The True Story of Farm Country on Trial |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Mark Schatzker |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 739 p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The once idyllic coastal plain of North Carolina is home to a close-knit, rural community that for more than a generation has battled the polluting practices of large-scale farming taking place in its own backyard. After years of frustration and futility, an impassioned cadre of local residents, led by a team of intrepid and dedicated lawyers, filed a lawsuit against one of the world’s most powerful companies—and, miraculously, they won. As vivid and fast-paced as a thriller, Wastelands takes us into the heart of a legal battle over the future of America’s farmland and into the lives of the people who found the courage to fight. There is Elsie Herring, the most outspoken of the neighbors, who has endured racial slurs and the threat of a restraining order to tell the story of the waste raining down on her rooftop from the hog operation next door. There is Don Webb, a larger-than-life hog farmer turned grassroots crusader, and Rick Dove, a riverkeeper and erstwhile military judge who has pioneered the use of aerial photography to document the scale of the pollution. There is Woodell McGowan, a quiet man whose quest to redeem his family’s ancestral land encourages him to become a better neighbor, and Dr. Steve Wing, a groundbreaking epidemiologist whose work on the health effects of hog waste exposure translates the neighbors’ stories into the argot of science. And there is Tom Butler, an environmental savant and hog industry insider whose whistle blowing testimony electrifies the jury. Fighting alongside them in the courtroom is Mona Lisa Wallace, who broke the gender barrier in her small southern town and built a storied legal career out of vanquishing corporate giants, and Mike Kaeske, whose trial skills are second to none. With journalistic rigor and a novelist’s instinct for story, Corban Addison's Wastelands captures the inspiring struggle to bring a modern-day monopoly to its knees, to force a once-invincible corporation to change, and to preserve the rights—and restore the heritage—of a long-suffering community. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Food Science |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Criminology |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Sociology Reference |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Large Print Books |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | |
| Koha item type | State Library Large Print |
| Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Permanent Location | Current Location | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen |
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| Arthur Johnson Memorial Library | Arthur Johnson Memorial Library | State Library | 30901000657779 | 2025-04-02 |