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    Roy Cohn: The mysterious US lawyer who helped Donald Trump rise to power

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    As new bio The Apprentice premieres at the Cannes Film Festival, a look at the cultural afterlife of political hitman Roy Cohn, who was Donald Trump's mentor in his early career – teaching him to "attack, counterattack and never apologise".

    The Apprentice, one of the highest-profile films in competition at Cannes, borrows the title of Donald Trump's reality show and turns it upside down. Here the apprentice is Trump himself (Sebastian Stan) as a young businessman being tutored in the ways of power and influence by the unscrupulous lawyer Roy Cohn. Jeremy Strong – the ambitious, cold-blooded Kendall Roy in Succession – plays the mentor, but Kendall would look like a well-behaved pussycat next to the real Roy Cohn.

    Cohn is best known now for the lessons he taught Trump, but even before that he was an outsized figure running through US politics and culture. To note

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    The Autobiography of Roy Cohn

    September 17,
    The first two thirds of the book is the “auto”biography, the last third is written by Sidney Zion, who purportedly edited the first part from a larger manuscript. One thing you can conclude with certainty from both authors is that Cohn led an outsized life and deserves a thoroughly researched biography.

    Cohn’s account of Cohn has him practicing law at the age of 21 and within 2 years he is recommending judgeships. At 24 he is the “go to” guy for prosecutors who are judge shopping and he is key in the prosecution of the Rosenberg’s. While they were most likely guilty, by Cohn’s own account, they clearly did not get a fair trial. Due to this successful prosecution, he was hired by Joseph McCarthy, whom he profusely praises, as lead prosecutor for HUAC. He is unabashedly proud of the work he did for McCarthy.

    Pages are devoted to the Kennedy-Morganthau prosecutions where Cohn loses the reader in the trees. Maybe he has convinced himself

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    Citizen Cohn: The Life and Times of Roy Cohn

    December 9,
    Say what you like about Roy Cohn (d. ), he was an amazing and at times mesmerizing celebrity, as adept at getting media attention for han själv and his law clients as he was avoiding the shadows of his personal life. This is not to say Roy Cohn was an admirable figure, though he had his supporters. Cohn, the scion of a Democratic state judge from the Bronx, was a lifelong Democrat but developed a passion for sniffing out "pinkos" in his own party. His sexual life was predominantly homosexual (I would not call him 'gay' in the modern sense), who cruised for pickups and studs at Atlantic coast resorts and in Manhattan's cavernous Studio 54 nightclub, who nonetheless had made life hell for "Lavender" civil servants in the Fifties.

    To read Nicholas von Hoffman's well researched and written biography is to come away with two interlocking conclusions; "How did they let him get AWAY with that?" and "What a hypocrite!" A prodigy, C