Why Just Her

by Montgomery Blair Sibley

Why Just Her” identifies the external and internal demons that drove the D.C. Madam, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, from an initially defiant woman willing to fight the government to a woman so despairing as to take her own life prior to sentencing upon her conviction for Prostitution Racketeering. Starting with the execution of search on her home and seizure warrants for her bank accounts in October 2006 through her death on May 1, 2008, the book traces Jeane's final 20 months as the judicial system time and again failed to live up to its promise to insure ‘justice’. Instead, unwittingly sitting atop a client list of the most powerful men in the world, that system made sure that Jeane's story would never be fully told.

598 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 2009

Reviews

[Amanda Langley-taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolute Power...who has it and for what? This brick of a book is excellent reading for anyone considering a future "career" in politics, prostitution, or publishing (all one in the same?), especially in our nation's capital; this is how the big D.C. rolls! Maybe it details a little too much in way of how to get around justice by its accounts of biased judges, greedy politicians, wimpy media outlets, and lazy litigators? Hmmm..Saturated with law lingo (a criminal law student's wet dream) and detailed facts that contributed to Deborah Jeane Palfrey's judicial lynching, it is NO breezy read. Corruption in American's courts? nothing new. Politicians acting illegally? just another day. Media outlets suppressing news? yawn. Sadly, none of this surprises me. Did Palfrey break the law? Did she deserve to go to jail? Although I know Washington's bad boys couldn't stand a woman profiting off her ability to retain a certain sexual and economic power over them, the topic of misogyny is a whole other book in itself. All of that is beside the point. What this book is truly about is HOW Washington D.C . "functions", even "thrives" each and every day by its injustices and manipulations. What this book is truly about is the power play between the judicial system, the politicians, the media, and the country's "less than well informed" citizens who stand in the wings as anemic witnesses (and victims?) to it all. For the book's importance alone, I give it 5 stars (though it lacks "pretty" poetical musings and its 590 pages could be edited back a bit). No, this book is not for everyone, esp. Disneymaniacs.
What are WE going to do about Washington's ills???? SO WHO HAS THE ULTIMATE POWER? Stay tuned....