Título: CITIZEN COHN: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ROY COHN
Autor: HOFFMAN, NICHOLAS VON
Año: 1988
Género: BIOGRAFÍAS Y MEMORIAS
Formato: EPUB
No one so famous or controversial led so many secret lives.
Roy Cohn was perhaps the most ourageous personality and the most unrepentant opportunist of our time. His effects on lives and institutions was profound. Presidentes, media barons, countless celebrities, business moguls, gangsters, judges, and endless politicians crossed Cohn's paths as clients, friends, and enemies, including J. Edgar Hoover, Senator Joe McCarthy, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Ronald Reagan, Robert Kennedy, Barbara Walters, Si Newhouse, Cardinal Spellman, Donald Trump, Fat Tony Salerno, Louis Nizer, Claus von Bülow, Rupert Murdoch, George Steinbrenner, and many more.
Loathed by some, and well respected by others, Roy Cohn was known as the toughest and most brilliant lawyer in U.S.A.
Cohn was the target of numerous indictments and haunted by professional misconduct charges which led to his disbarment shortly before his death. His private life, even more outrageous than his life known to the public, constantly had his name in gossip columns; there were his lovers, his denial of his homosexuality and AIDS diagnosis, and finally his death from AIDS-related cancer in 1986.
Nicolas von Hoffman has created a remarkable and provocative biography of a complex life that was driven by power. Interviewing family members, colleagues, clients, friends, and lovers, he gives an extraordinary portrait of the man, his ideological passion, and the patterns of power and money that made him, in the end, one of the most influential men in our society. From hidden bank accounts, numerous incidents of political fixing, and surprising connections, «Citizen Cohn» reveals the real Roy Cohn.
Roy Cohn was been described by people who knew him as “a snake”, “a scoundrel” and “a new strain of son of a bitch”.
Cohn's power was so widespread and his life so complex that it is only in this extraordinary biography that de full story of Roy Cohn is revealed.
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