DSK: Anatomy of a Scandal: The Scandal That Brought Down Dominique Strauss-Kahn - Hardcover

Solomon, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1250012635 ISBN 13: 9781250012630

Publisher: St Martin's Press, 2012

Synopsis

DSK: Anatomy of a Scandal With all the errors and perversities of this case, the public was left wondering was Dominique Strauss-Kahn guilty or innocent? The author gets past the headlines to tell the real story of how vanity, ambition and media exposure played a more important role than facts, evidence and law in the unravelling the case. Full description

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Review

Advance Praise: "Solomon's riveting account of what probably happened--and didn't happen--in that fancy hotel room will change your mind. He presents the case the DA declined to present. Read it and decide for yourself whether the prosecution of DSK should have been dropped. "--Alan M. Dershowitz

Advance Praise for "DSK

""Solomon's riveting account of what probably happened--and didn't happen--in that fancy hotel room will change your mind. He presents the case the DA declined to present. Read it and decide for yourself whether the prosecution of DSK should have been dropped."
--Alan M. Dershowitz

Advance Praise for "DSK

""Solomon's riveting account of what probably happened--and didn't happen--in that fancy hotel room will change your mind. He presents the case the DA declined to present. Read it and decide for yourself whether the prosecution of DSK should have been dropped."
--Alan M. Dershowitz

Praise for "DSK"

"Solomon's riveting account of what probably happened--and didn't happen--in that fancy hotel room will change your mind. He presents the case the DA declined to present. Read it and decide for yourself whether the prosecution of DSK should have been dropped."

--Alan M. Dershowitz

"This is a fascinating examination of the roles of politics, race, class, social status, and egos in one of the decade's most sensational criminal cases."

--"Booklist "(starred review)

"Exciting."

--"Le Figaro"

Praise for "DSK

""Solomon's riveting account of what probably happened--and didn't happen--in that fancy hotel room will change your mind. He presents the case the DA declined to present. Read it and decide for yourself whether the prosecution of DSK should have been dropped." --Alan M. Dershowitz

"This is a fascinating examination of the roles of politics, race, class, social status, and egos in one of the decade's most sensational criminal cases." --"Booklist "(starred review)

"Exciting." --"Le Figaro"

"Investigative journalist John Solomon has provided the best explanation yet for what is going on in this tightly written and altogether credible account of what happens when an ordinary sex scandal involving a prominent man turns into a dark story where scary questions still lurk." --"The Washington Times"

Praise for "DSK
""Solomon's riveting account of what probably happened--and didn't happen--in that fancy hotel room will change your mind. He presents the case the DA declined to present. Read it and decide for yourself whether the prosecution of DSK should have been dropped." --Alan M. Dershowitz
"This is a fascinating examination of the roles of politics, race, class, social status, and egos in one of the decade's most sensational criminal cases." --"Booklist "(starred review)
"Exciting." --"Le Figaro"
"Investigative journalist John Solomon has provided the best explanation yet for what is going on in this tightly written and altogether credible account of what happens when an ordinary sex scandal involving a prominent man turns into a dark story where scary questions still lurk." --"The Washington Times"

Solomon's riveting account of what probably happened--and didn't happen--in that fancy hotel room will change your mind. He presents the case the DA declined to present. Read it and decide for yourself whether the prosecution of DSK should have been dropped. "Alan M. Dershowitz"

This is a fascinating examination of the roles of politics, race, class, social status, and egos in one of the decade's most sensational criminal cases. "Booklist (starred review)"

Exciting. "Le Figaro"

Investigative journalist John Solomon has provided the best explanation yet for what is going on in this tightly written and altogether credible account of what happens when an ordinary sex scandal involving a prominent man turns into a dark story where scary questions still lurk. "The Washington Times""

"Solomon's riveting account of what probably happened--and didn't happen--in that fancy hotel room will change your mind. He presents the case the DA declined to present. Read it and decide for yourself whether the prosecution of DSK should have been dropped." --Alan M. Dershowitz

"This is a fascinating examination of the roles of politics, race, class, social status, and egos in one of the decade's most sensational criminal cases." --Booklist (starred review)

"Exciting." --Le Figaro

"Investigative journalist John Solomon has provided the best explanation yet for what is going on in this tightly written and altogether credible account of what happens when an ordinary sex scandal involving a prominent man turns into a dark story where scary questions still lurk." --The Washington Times

About the Author

John Solomon is one of America's premier investigative journalists, whose award-winning stories over the last quarter-century have exposed scandals ranging from the use of foster children in AIDS drug experiments to what the Bush administration knew about terror threats in the days before September 11, 2001. His exposes have appeared in Newsweek, The Washington Post, The New York Times, on 60 Minutes, and in the Associated Press and countless other publications and news shows across the globe. A former executive editor of The Washington Times and director of news at Newsweek, Solomon currently runs the Washington Guardian investigative newspaper in the nation's capital and lives in Virginia.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1250012635
• ISBN 13: 9781250012630
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304