She Said

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Megan Twohey, Jodi Kantor: She Said (Hardcover, 2019, Penguin Press)

Hardcover, 310 pages

Published Oct. 19, 2019 by Penguin Press.

ISBN:
978-0-525-56034-0
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I just recently heard of this book through the trailer for the movie adaptation. This book focuses on the women who came together to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault.

This wasn’t the first time that people had named him as a person who assaulted women. It was an open secret in Hollywood. But up until this time no one had ever cared enough or was powerful enough to stop him. Many of the women involved had signed non-disclosure agreements that prohibited them from speaking to the press. The journalists had to find other ways to prove what had been happening. They were able to follow the money from those settlements to show that Weinstein had a pattern of paying off women.

The addition of the story of Christine Blasey Ford at the end was interesting but didn’t seem to fit in this book at all. It seemed tacked on. …