lies, spies, and a conspiracy to protect predators
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Farrow, Ronan
- Publish Year
- 2019
- Shelfmark
- VS 3 2019 - B
- Thesaurus
- seksueel geweld, daders, slachtoffers, films, Verenigde Staten, 21e eeuw, biografische gegevens
- Description
- In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Farrow, son of actress Mia Farrow and filmmaker Woody Allen. to a story about Harvey Weinstein , protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career and weaponizing an account of abuse in his own family. This is the story of the tactics of surveillance and intimidation deployed by wealthy and connected men to threaten journalists, evade accountability, and silence victims of abuse. And it's the story of the women who risked everything to expose the truth and spark a global movement of metoo.