Funeral Wars: How Lawyer Willie Gary Turned a Petty Dispute About Coffins into a Multi-million Dolla by Jonathan Harr


Funeral Wars: How Lawyer Willie Gary Turned a Petty Dispute About Coffins into a Multi-million Dolla
Title : Funeral Wars: How Lawyer Willie Gary Turned a Petty Dispute About Coffins into a Multi-million Dolla
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Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 80
Publication : First published August 20, 2001

'I'm just a country boy,' says Willie Gary when he addresses a jury. 'If I just talk in plain, ordinary talk, you won't hold that against me, will you?' The son of migrant corn-pickers, Gary is one of America's most successful diamond-encrusted Rolex, private Gulfstream jet. In Funeral Wars, Jonathan Harr follows Gary's most notorious case, a contract dispute between rival funeral parlours. This is the bizarre story of how Gary turns that dispute into a multi-million-dollar morality play. Above all, though, it is his story, that of a simple Southern boy whose life has taken on the contours of legend.

Funeral Wars: How Lawyer Willie Gary Turned a Petty Dispute About Coffins into a Multi-million Dolla Reviews

  • Belinda

    I have read two of Harr's other books and was interested in how he would approach the funeral industry. His descriptions of how conglomerates swoop into a community and purchase local establishments and raise prices, without the local community even being aware that the sale had taken place, was very interesting. In addition, his sociological study of why so many of these establishments were available for sale were equally interesting. However, I was transfixed by the trial itself, and the skill and tactics of the attorney who represented the small funeral home.