Grace [Hardcover]

Lawrence Clayton (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 403 pages
• Publisher: Jameson Books (IL); First Edition edition (February 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0915463253
• ISBN-13: 978-0915463251
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.7 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,440,801 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Larry Clayton lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama where he teaches at the University of Alabama. He grew up in Lima, Peru with his Chilean mom and gringo dad. After college at Duke, he served in the Navy on the USS Donner (LSD 20) for a couple of years in the Caribbean and Mediterranean, then went to New Orleans and graduate school at Tulane. He began teaching at Alabama in 1972, has two grown daughters, a son working and in college, and his wife Louise is a pastor. He has published a bunch of history books, writes occasionally for the press, has his own blog, and is at work on the air war over the Bay of Pigs, April, 1961. His last book was a biography of a Dominican priest, Bartolomé de las Casas (1485-1566). He is a licensed pilot, as is his son, and they occasionally fly together judging each other's flying skills. Both he and his wife participate in the Tuscaloosa County Jail Ministry and his wife's blog, http://lifeinchristinfo.com is devoted to that ministry with a daily Scripture. His blog is http://laclayton.wordpress.com Please visit his so he can claim some hits.

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WR Grace is infamous for polluting the environment in which it does business as seen in the book "A Civil Action" by Jonathan Harr and also by its ongoing asbestos litigation involving asbestos products made from its Cambridge,Mass facility. Grace is a politically astute company and Republican party supporter. In addition, it has had prominent members of the high Finance and Intelligence communities on its Board of Directors.