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Episode 71 -- Roy Cohn with Matt Sitman (Part 1)
Manage episode 478383060 series 3493019
Moira and Adrian are joined by Matt Sitman of Know Your Enemy to discuss the life of Roy Cohn -- lawyer, closet case and ratfucker extraordinaire. This first part deals with Cohn's childhood, the Rosenberg trial, and his time with Sen. McCarthy.
Here are the books and documentaries we discuss in this first half:
-- Nicholas von Hoffman, Citizen Cohn: The Life and Times of Roy Cohn (1988)
-- Ivy Meeropol (dir.), Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn (2019)
-- Matt Tyrnauer (dir.), Where's My Roy Cohn? (2019)
-- Christopher M. Elias, Gossip Men: J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation (2021)
-- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (1990)
61 episodes
Manage episode 478383060 series 3493019
Moira and Adrian are joined by Matt Sitman of Know Your Enemy to discuss the life of Roy Cohn -- lawyer, closet case and ratfucker extraordinaire. This first part deals with Cohn's childhood, the Rosenberg trial, and his time with Sen. McCarthy.
Here are the books and documentaries we discuss in this first half:
-- Nicholas von Hoffman, Citizen Cohn: The Life and Times of Roy Cohn (1988)
-- Ivy Meeropol (dir.), Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn (2019)
-- Matt Tyrnauer (dir.), Where's My Roy Cohn? (2019)
-- Christopher M. Elias, Gossip Men: J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation (2021)
-- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (1990)
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