Perversion of Justice
Autor Julie K. Brownen Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 iul 2021
Publicată sub egida Dey Street Books, Perversion of Justice reprezintă cronica unei lupte inegale împotriva unui sistem conceput să protejeze privilegiul. Putem afirma că lucrarea semnată de Julie K. Brown nu este doar un volum de tip „true crime”, ci o analiză devastatoare a modului în care justiția americană a eșuat timp de decenii în fața miliardarului Jeffrey Epstein. Notăm cu interes că, spre deosebire de relatările senzaționaliste, Brown se concentrează pe mecanismele puterii și pe munca de Sisif a recuperării mărturiilor supraviețuitoarelor care au fost reduse la tăcere.
Ca și Relentless Pursuit de Bradley J Edwards, volumul explorează rețeaua complicităților la nivel înalt, dar din unghiul jurnalistului care trebuie să spargă zidul tăcerii impus de avocați și politicieni. Dacă Edwards oferă perspectiva legală a reprezentării victimelor, Brown ne introduce în culisele redacției Miami Herald, arătând cum o publicație regională a reușit să forțeze o redeschidere a cazului la nivel federal. În contextul operei sale, deși Julie K. Brown este cunoscută pentru lucrări de istorie a fotografiei precum Making Culture Visible, această tranziție către investigația contemporană păstrează aceeași rigoare în analiza documentelor de arhivă și a probelor materiale.
Structura narativă este una procedurală, amintind de atmosfera din She Said de Jodi Kantor, unde accentul cade pe procesul minuțios și adesea frustrant de verificare a faptelor. Ritmul este alert, dar textul rămâne ancorat în realitatea aridă a dosarelor penale, evitând capcanele ficționalizării. Este o lectură despre curaj jurnalistic și despre refuzul de a accepta „adevăruri” convenabile atunci când probele indică o corupție sistemică.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0063063174
Pagini: 656
Dimensiuni: 229 x 150 x 44 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Ediția:Text mare
Editura: Harpercollins
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte cititorilor interesați de jurnalismul de investigație pur și de mecanismele puterii politice. Veți descoperi cum o singură jurnalistă a reușit să dărâme un imperiu al tăcerii, oferind o lecție despre importanța presei locale. Este volumul esențial pentru a înțelege contextul complet al cazului Epstein, dincolo de titlurile de tabloid, punând accent pe dreptatea refuzată victimelor timp de ani de zile.
Despre autor
Julie K. Brown este o jurnalistă de investigație premiată și cercetătoare asociată în cadrul Departamentului de Medicină, Știință și Societate de la National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institution). Deși s-a remarcat inițial prin lucrări academice despre istoria culturii vizuale și a fotografiei în secolul al XIX-lea, Brown a devenit o figură centrală în jurnalismul contemporan după seria de articole din Miami Herald despre Jeffrey Epstein. Rigoarea sa de cercetător se reflectă în modul în care analizează documentele sigilate și structurile de putere complexe.
Descriere scurtă
“A gripping journalistic procedural… Spotlight meets Erin Brockovich.” —Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times
“Julie K. Brown's important book offers not just a definitive account of the Epstein case, but a compelling window into her own experiences as a dogged reporter at a regional newspaper, facing off against powerful interests set against her reporting.” —Ronan Farrow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Catch and Kill
Dauntless journalist Julie K. Brown recounts her uncompromising and risky investigation of Jeffrey Epstein's underage sex trafficking operation, and the explosive reporting for the Miami Herald that finally brought him to justice while exposing the powerful people and broken system that protected him.
For many years, billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's penchant for teenage girls was an open secret in the high society of Palm Beach, Florida and Upper East Side, Manhattan. Charged in 2008 with soliciting prostitution from minors, Epstein was treated with unheard of leniency, dictating the terms of his non-prosecution. The media virtually ignored the failures of the criminal justice system, and Epstein's friends and business partners brushed the allegations aside. But when in 2017 the U.S Attorney who approved Epstein's plea deal, Alexander Acosta, was chosen by President Trump as Labor Secretary, reporter Julie K. Brown was compelled to ask questions.
Despite her editor's skepticism that she could add a new dimension to a known story, Brown determined that her goal would be to track down the victims themselves. Poring over thousands of redacted court documents, traveling across the country and chasing down information in difficulty and sometimes dangerous circumstances, Brown tracked down dozens of Epstein's victims, now young women struggling to reclaim their lives after the trauma and shame they had endured.
Brown's resulting three-part series in the Miami Herald was one of the most explosive news stories of the decade, revealing how Epstein ran a global sex trafficking pyramid scheme with impunity for years, targeting vulnerable teens, often from fractured homes and then turning them into recruiters. The outrage led to Epstein's arrest, the disappearance and eventual arrest of his closest accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, and the resignation of Acosta. The financier's mysterious suicide in a New York City jail cell prompted wild speculation about the secrets he took to the grave-and whether his death was intentional or the result of foul play.
Tracking Epstein’s evolution from a college dropout to one of the most successful financiers in the country—whose associates included Donald Trump, Prince Andrew, and Bill Clinton—Perversion of Justice builds on Brown's original award-winning series, showing the power of truth, the value of local reportage and the tenacity of one woman in the face of the deep-seated corruption of powerful men.
Recenzii
"Julie K. Brown's important book offers not just a definitive account of the Epstein case, but a compelling window into her own experiences as a dogged reporter at a regional newspaper, facing off against both powerful interests set against her reporting, and a wider moment in which local news is a precious and vanishing resource. The book is subtitled "The Jeffrey Epstein Story," but its lessons about courage in the face of adversity, and the crucial role of journalism in holding the powerful to account, go far beyond that case." — Ronan Farrow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Catch and Kill
"Class, as much as the dismal state of journalism, is the great undercurrent in Perversion of Justice and gives this scrappy book its heart." — Laura Miller, Slate
"Brown pulls back the curtain on her life behind the headlines." — Daily Beast
"[Brown's] description of both the hard work of investigation and the perilous current state of newspapers adds an important dimension to the story." — Tampa Bay Times
Notă biografică
Brown previously won acclaim for a series of stories about abuses and corruption in Florida prisons. The stories led to the resignations of top agency officials, firings of corrupt corrections officers and an overhaul in the treatment of inmates with mental and physical disabilities, as well as women in Florida prisons. That series also won a Polk Award. A native of Philadelphia, she is a graduate of Temple University.
Descriere
For years, billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's crimes were an open secret among the powerful — and yet he walked free, protected by wealth, connections, and a broken justice system. It took one tenacious journalist to change that.
Julie K. Brown, a reporter at the Miami Herald, spent years tracking down survivors and prying loose sealed documents to expose how a sweetheart deal with federal prosecutors had let Epstein escape serious punishment. Her reporting reignited the case, led to his arrest in 2019, and brought down a conspiracy of silence that had lasted over a decade.
Perversion of Justice is Brown's riveting, enraging account of that investigation — a story about power, complicity, and the women who refused to be silenced. Essential reading alongside the Netflix documentary series.