Roy Cohn loved the best tables at the finest restaurants, the toughest legal cases, the richest and most famous as his friends. But what this notorious New York lawyer loved more than anything was power, and he spent his entire career going after it by manipulating the media, spinning setbacks into personal PR “wins,” and a simple credo: Never apologize—just attack. It was a lesson he’d pass on to everyone from political hopefuls to paparazzi-bait clients to protegés like a real-estate developer named Donald Trump. Acclaimed documentarian Matt Tyrnauer (Studio 54, Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood) gives us the definitive look at one of the most divisive figures of the 20th century: a man who made his name as Joseph McCarthy’s right-hand man during the HUAC hearings, who represented Mafia capos, and counseled President Reagan, and whose shadow looms far too large on today’s divided states of America.
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