In the Public Closet
Deborah Friedell: Trump’s Consigliere, 22 October 2026
American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
by Kai Bird with Susan Goldmark.
Scribner, 509 pp., £30, September,978 1 3985 6690 3 Show More
by Kai Bird with Susan Goldmark.
Scribner, 509 pp., £30, September,
“... us. Nobody speaking. Or breathing. And all he said to me was: ‘You remember what Roy said?’Kai Bird had come to think of himself as a ‘biographer of the American establishment’. He’d made his career writing about John J. McCloy, the ‘chairman’ of postwar US foreign policy; the Bundy brothers, architects of the Vietnam War; J. Robert ... ”
