Citizen Cohn by Nicholas von Hoffman

A searing investigative biography that traces Roy M. Cohn’s rise from Joseph McCarthy’s aggressive chief counsel to a feared, ethically compromised New York power broker, portraying him as a manipulative, law-bending fixer whose influence reached into politics, business and organized crime; the narrative examines his closeted homosexuality, corrosive tactics, and eventual downfall amid the AIDS epidemic to argue that his career exemplified the dangers of power exercised without principle.