Study Guide: A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr: SuperSummary (Unabridged‪)‬

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Exploring justice, bureaucracy, and greed, A Civil Action is a nonfiction account of the legal case between several families in Woburn, Massachusetts, and two corporations, Beatrice Foods and W.R. Grace.

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