The Age of Cohn
Culture The Age of Cohn A new biography of the notorious lawyer sheds light on the Trump era. Martin Di Caro Aug 23, 2026 12:01 AM Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey From Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump, by Kai Bird with Susan Goldmark.
- ▪Culture The Age of Cohn A new biography of the notorious lawyer sheds light on the Trump era.
- ▪Martin Di Caro Aug 23, 2026 12:01 AM Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player...
- ▪American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey From Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump, by Kai Bird with Susan Goldmark.
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| Original publisher | The American Conservative |
| Canonical URL | https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-age-of-cohn/ |
| Publication time | Sun, 23 Aug 2026 04:01:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-23T06:09:38.073Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-23T06:09:38.073Z |
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Culture The Age of Cohn A new biography of the notorious lawyer sheds light on the Trump era. Martin Di Caro Aug 23, 2026 12:01 AM Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey From Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump, by Kai Bird with Susan Goldmark. Scribner. 528 pages “Leave Donald alone,” Roy Cohn warned a federal prosecutor. “He’s going to be big one day.” The author Kai Bird takes us back to the mid-1970s, when Roy Marcus Cohn, the erstwhile McCarthyite witchhunter-turned–lawyer-fixer for notorious New York City mobsters, was defending Donald Trump, then 27 and on the make, in a racial discrimination lawsuit.
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