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Gilt and Silence. A Family's Pursuit of Justice Through London's Most Protected Corridors of Power
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- Nombre de pages606
- FormatePub
- ISBN978-3-565-63471-2
- EAN9783565634712
- Date de parution11/08/2026
- Protection num.pas de protection
- Taille1 Mo
- Infos supplémentairesepub
- ÉditeurEmphaloz Publishing House
Résumé
A death was recorded. A case was closed. And yet the questions that remained would take decades, a family's persistence, and the tools of modern investigative journalism to even begin to surface. In early twentieth-century London - a city that had perfected the art of burying its inconveniences beneath layers of institutional courtesy - certain deaths were simply not meant to be examined too closely.
The gilded surface of metropolitan life depended on that restraint. What Patrick Radden Keefe's framework illuminates, when applied to this case, is the architecture beneath the silence. White-collar crime in urban London was not an aberration from the city's elite social order - it was a function of it. Financial power and policing did not operate as adversaries; they operated as a negotiated compact, shaped by class loyalty, reputational interest, and the quiet understanding that certain investigations should resolve themselves before they became inconvenient.
The formal machinery of justice was never entirely neutral. It was socially calibrated - and the calibration favored those who already held the instruments of credibility. The methodology Keefe employs cuts against that calibration.
The gilded surface of metropolitan life depended on that restraint. What Patrick Radden Keefe's framework illuminates, when applied to this case, is the architecture beneath the silence. White-collar crime in urban London was not an aberration from the city's elite social order - it was a function of it. Financial power and policing did not operate as adversaries; they operated as a negotiated compact, shaped by class loyalty, reputational interest, and the quiet understanding that certain investigations should resolve themselves before they became inconvenient.
The formal machinery of justice was never entirely neutral. It was socially calibrated - and the calibration favored those who already held the instruments of credibility. The methodology Keefe employs cuts against that calibration.
