Who Let Roy Cohn Off the Hook?

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The photograph of Roy Cohn that graces the cover of Kai Bird’s new biography, American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey From Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump , was actually the author’s second choice. As Bird describes in the book’s acknowledgements, he was denied the right to use his preferred option, Robert Mapplethorpe’s stark portrait of Cohn’s cold-eyed visage that calls to mind a Halloween mask. In Bird’s accounting, the Mapplethorpe Foundation feared losing its nonprofit status if it licensed the photograph to appear on the cover of a book critical of the current president, Cohn’s most…

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Who Let Roy Cohn Off the Hook?
The photograph of Roy Cohn that graces the cover of Kai Bird’s new biography, American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey From Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump , was actually the author’s second choice. As Bird describes in the book’s acknowledgements, he was denied the right to...