Oxford Enterprise talks about Kings of Tort as first book on scandal to hit bookstores
Two books to cover Dickie Scruggs case
Tom Dawson, one of three federal prosecutors who sat on the other side of the bar in the same Oxford courtroom, teamed up this past June with Alan Lange, a conservative Mississippi legal blogger, to write “Kings of Tort: The True Story of Dickie Scruggs, Paul Minor, and Two Decades of Political and Legal Manipulation in Mississippi,” due out Dec. 2 by Pediment Publishing. Pediment specializes in commemorative publications for newspapers.
Dawson, who has lived and worked in Oxford since 1975, retired from his assistant U.S. attorney position for the Northern District of Mississippi in January. He and Lange hooked up this summer to write the book, the first for both men, and turned in the final copy to Pediment a few weeks ago.
The process moved from start to finish pretty quickly, Dawson said. “You can’t discount the fact that I lived it. It was not something being written by a third party, so it was fresh on my mind.”
Dawson combined his inside perspective with Lange’s compilation of media reports to create a cohesive narrative of the investigation and prosecution.
The timing of the two releases created a bit of a stir in Oxford.
Join us on Facebook!