Publisher | PublicAffairs; Illustrated edition |
ISBN 13 | 9781586484514 |
ISBN 10 | 1586484516 |
Author | Kenneth R Feinberg |
Book Format | Paperback |
Language | English |
Book Description | As head of the 9/11 Compensation Fund, Feinberg was asked, in the interest of fairness, to calculate the dollar value of 2,976 lives lost in the World Trade Center. The experience changed his own life forever. |
About the Author | Kenneth R. Feinberg, one of the nation's leading lawyers, has been front and centre in some of the most complex public legal disputes of the past three decades: Agent Orange, asbestos, the closing of the Shoreham Nuclear Plant, and now, 9/11. A former prosecutor and member of two Presidential Commissions, he is also adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and New York University. |
Publication Date | 29 August 2006 |
Number of Pages | 240 pages |
What Is Life Worth?: The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11