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A review by elerireads
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey
3.0
I tend to really enjoy films about investigative journalism (Spotlight, All the President's Men, etc.) but haven't read any books like this before. In places it felt quite annoyingly overdramatised - maybe it's a journalist-turned-book-writer thing because I had the exact same gripe with Chasing the Scream - but overall it was very clearly and engagingly written and the dramatic characterisation did help a little bit with keeping track of all the different players involved in the scandal and journalists' investigation. I can see it could be necessary in book format when you can't just rely on faces to keep track of who everyone is.
At the time of the Harvey Weinstein scandal I didn't follow it that closely in the news, so I don't know how much of the material about the events themselves was new in this book. I guess what struck me most was the scale, number of allies and resources used in Weinstein's attempts to cover up and stifle the story, almost felt like a massive government cover-up. But given that it took decades bring to light what was essentially systematic sexual assault, maybe the scale of the cover up shouldn't be surprising at all.
At the time of the Harvey Weinstein scandal I didn't follow it that closely in the news, so I don't know how much of the material about the events themselves was new in this book. I guess what struck me most was the scale, number of allies and resources used in Weinstein's attempts to cover up and stifle the story, almost felt like a massive government cover-up. But given that it took decades bring to light what was essentially systematic sexual assault, maybe the scale of the cover up shouldn't be surprising at all.