American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump

by Kai Bird · Hardcover· 528 pages

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Setting: United States
Era: 20th Century

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A narrative masterwork. Bird vividly creates the sinister web of charm and deceit that Cohn was able to spin through his decades at the very center of power." --Marie Brenner, award-winning writer-at-large for Vanity Fair and coproducer of the...

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Author: Kai Bird
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 528
Published: September 01, 2026
Language: ENG- English
ISBN: 9781668031575

About the author

Kai Bird

Kai Bird is an acclaimed biographer and journalist. With Martin J. Sherwin, he won the Pulitzer Prize for biography for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, which was the inspiration for Christopher Nolan's Academy Award-winning Best Picture, Oppenheimer. Bird is Executive Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. He has won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Duff Cooper Prize for History and is the recipient of numerous fellowships. His work includes critical writings on the Vietnam War, Hiroshima, nuclear weapons, the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the CIA. He is an elected member of the prestigious Society of American Historians.

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