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Pub Date Jul 04 2014 | Archive Date Mar 04 2014
Description
Blood
Highways is the heart-wrenching account of the biggest product liability case
in history: the Ford-Firestone fiasco. At the center of the story are two
people: Tab Turner, a charismatic trial attorney from Arkansas, who has made a
career out of forcing Ford and other automakers to own up to knowingly trade
human lives for profits; and Donna Bailey, a single mother and outdoor
enthusiast who fought back from the brink of death to confront those ultimately
responsible for her accident.
Weaving together harrowing depictions of the accidents and their consequences
with the stories of the men and women who labor to police the auto industry and
its reckless cost-cutting, Blood Highways will transform the way you view
corporations, the government, the courts, and the media. Above all, this book
shows the price the public pays in wrecked and mangled lives when companies
focus more on shaving costs than making quality products.
Advance Praise
Publishers Weekly:
In a stinging invective, journalist Penenberg outlines the ethical failures and
calculated improprieties of two principal automotive-industry companies, along
with the struggle of attorney Tab Turner to hold them accountable. Already an
established consumer-rights lawyer, Turner began to focus on Ford Explorers
equipped with Firestone Wilderness tires in the mid to late 1990s, when the
number of cases in which the tread separated from a tire and resulted in an
often fatal rollover accident began to become significant. ... Penenberg...
offers extensive endnotes from an array of sources to back up his claims... .
It's a comprehensive and disturbing book ... .
Booklist
Following closely on Keith Bradsher's High
and Mighty, this latest indictment of sport utility vehicle (SUV) safety
may portend the start of a new movement against these popular vehicles based on
the threat they pose to the safety of all motorists. Business journalist
Penenberg's work focuses on the Ford/Firestone tire debacle, which was a major
news story, and the work of an attorney who repeatedly took on two of the most
powerful corporations in the world. The book offers a comprehensive look at a
notorious corporate scandal and a courtroom drama and investigation that ends
in triumph for the many victims.
Boston Globe
Corporate greed is the target of [Blood
Highways], a dramatic account of problems with Ford's popular Bronco and
Explorer sport utility vehicles and the Firestone Wilderness AT and ATX tires.
Penenberg's book argues persuasively--and sadly--that in this country,
corporate accord and profit seem far more important than safety and conscience.
(These reviews refer to an earlier edition of this book, published as Tragic Indifference by HarperCollins,
2003.)
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781938757013 |
| PRICE | $8.99 (USD) |
