Loathed by some, well respected by others, Roy Cohn was known as the toughest and most brilliant lawyer in America. And indeed, his power brokering, love of glamour; controversy, and notoriety made him, in the end, one of the most influential men in our society. From his role in the Rosenbergs' trial and as chiefcounsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Senate hearings through his extraordinary friendship with J. Edgar Hoover and his own vendetta against Robert Kennedy, Cohn's reputation built. But his unique practice of law and power brokering was most notorious outside the courtroom. His unprecedented track record and his sensational and shocking behavior drew the rich and the powerful to him to solve their problems. His clients ranged from media barons to members of organized crime, to the owners and clientele of Studio 54, to glittering society names-especially if they were divorcing-and a host of the mighty in business and politics. At the same time Cohn, himself the target of numerous indictments, was haunted by professional misconduct charges and finally disbarred shortly before his death. His private life was even more startling than the public one. Roy Cohn's name was constantly in gossip columns, hobnobbing with the glitterati; then there were his lovers, his denials of his homosexuality and AIDS, and finally his death from AIDS-related cancer in 1986. Nicholas von Hoffman has created a remarkable and provocative biography. interviewing family members, colleagues, clients, friends, and lovers, he gives us an extraordinary portrait of the man, his ideological passion, and the patterns of power and money that controlled his life. From the hidden bank accounts, numerous incidents of political fixing, and surprising connections, to the clients who were bilked, the judges and politicians who made his singular practice of law possible, Citizen Cohn reveals the real Roy Cohn. Nicholas von Hoffman has written for the Chicago Daily News, the Washington Post, and King Features Syndicate, and reported through the electronic media on CBS's '60 Minutes, CBS Radio, and the Byline Radio Syndicate. He has also written for almost every major magazine and is the author of nine previous books, including Organized Crinies, Make-Believe Presidents, and, with Garry Trudeau, The Fireside Watergate.

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As one of the lead characters in this story, I was quite taken with the veracity of my performance. Nick did an amazing amount of leg work over the course of the summer, based initially on people I introduced him to. He pursued many paths of interest and covered a substantial amount of territory. The narrative, as described elsewhere, had as much structure as the situation itself allowed, which was really very little. The Haight-Ashbury was about things happening. Things, in this milieu, were not particularly planned, beyond setting a temporal framework and attempting to provide events for the framework, or just letting the events take over and flow where they would. As a followup, Stuart Loomis and the White Rabbit have recently been in contact by email as a result of a documentary on the period broadcast on PBS. Kelly avoided Vietnam and spent many years as a roady for rock and roll bands. He disappeared from view in the early eighties. Nick himself has spent a number of years recently working on plays for the stage, after a long successful career at the Washington Post. The White Rabbit gave up on the idea of pursuing a medical career and is a senior executive in Information Technology.