Aphrodisiac by Stephen Kimber
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Title:
Aphrodisiac
Author:
Stephen Kimber
Category:
True Crime
ISBN:
9781483586885
Publisher:
Bookbaby
File Size:
0.47 MB
(price excluding 0% GST)
Synopsis
Before there was Bill Cosby, or Jian Ghomeshi, or Bill Clinton, or Donald Trump, there was Gerald Regan, a former Nova Scotia premier and Canadian cabinet minister accused in 1995 of having sexually assaulted close to three dozen women over a span of forty years.
“Aphrodisiac: Sex, Politics, Power, and Gerald Regan” (originally published as “NOT GUILTY: The Trial of Gerald Regan”) tells the shocking story of the police investigation into his behaviour with young women, the string of criminal charges filed against him and his explosive 1998 trial on the most serious charges of rape and attempted rape.
We have come a long way in our understanding of the sometimes subtle, sometimes sledgehammer differences between what happens inside the legalistic, beyond-a-reasonable-doubt confines of the courtroom and what we understand about the real world in which we live.
At some level, this book is about history. But there is a link to the present too. The Regan case marked an important public psychological turning point. For the first time in Canada, a group of women had come forward to hold a powerful man to account for his behaviour toward them.
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