Kai Bird

Pulitzer Prize winning Biographer & Journalist. On sale September 1 2026–American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump

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Many thanks to Deborah Friedall for her review of "American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joseph McCarthy to Donald Trump", which added a lot of additional information from other sources that are most interesting:

https://t.co/evXSlCjGYp

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Roy Cohn hung out in Provincetown with unlikely neighbor Norman Mailer for many summers. The Provincetown Independent (thank goodness for small independent media) reviews "American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joseph McCarthy to Donald Trump". https://t.co/T9Rn3Aqnvt

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Thanks to Bill Press of the Bill Press Pod for his in-depth podcast discussing my latest book "American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump". Roy Cohn was a villain who still casts a shadow on our politics to this day.
https://t.co/ApIgDfQSQI

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Julian Zelizer on his Substack "The Long View" interviewed me about "American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump". Great Substack, consider subscribing!
https://t.co/At3kRNEgiA

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How AIPAC Failed — and How It Can Recover https://t.co/4Uhd1Gy945 via @NYTOpinion

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New interview about my latest NY Times Bestseller book "American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joseph McCarthy to Donald Trump". Thanks to American Ethical Union in NYC for the opportunity:
https://t.co/ZmC73jazoY

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Sue and I were interviewed by Ken Auletta, who asked a lot of interesting questions at The Leon Levy Center of Biography at City University of New York (CUNY).

CUNY's YouTube Channel: https://t.co/SL8g0EdsFZ

A nice summary of the evening:

https://t.co/zw3aD9mLdq

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Really enjoyed talking to Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air. She was kind enough to carefully edit out all my coughing (I had a bad cold).

https://t.co/qHab7K4z6W

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Laying the foundation for Trump, on Monocle:

https://t.co/rADJHZZLAz

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MeidasTouch Legal AF hosts Sean Wilentz and Sidney Blumenthal did a 4 part deep dive series with Kai Bird to explore "American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joseph McCartney to Donald Trump".

Part 4 of 4, The Man Trump Needed the Most

https://t.co/xQ3bT8tnq7

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MeidasTouch Legal AF hosts Sean Wilentz and Sidney Blumenthal did a 4 part series with Kai Bird to explore "American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joseph McCartney to Donald Trump".

Part 3 of 4, The Shadowy Figure Who Created the Trump World

https://t.co/PHV2jITfRo

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MeidasTouch Legal AF hosts Sean Wilentz and Sidney Blumenthal did a 4-part series with Kai Bird to explore what "American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joseph McCartney to Donald Trump" surfaced.

Part 1 of 4, What Trump Learned from Roy Cohn

https://t.co/OqhYN8yACO

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MeidasTouch Legal AF hosts Sean Wilentz and Sidney Blumenthal did a 4 part series with Kai Bird to explore what "American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joseph McCartney to Donald Trump" surfaced. Part 2 of 4, The Dark Origins of Trump's Mentor

https://t.co/S2dX2LEVvr

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Major Garrett interviewed Kai Bird on CBS "The Takeout". Check it out:

https://t.co/Q2IvWlO3pP

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Last week Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark were in DC at the famous bookstore Politics and Prose. Here is third of three videos from that session, about Roy's "Favor Bank" that made him fast friends with a wide variety of New York influencers like Barbara Walters:

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Last week Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark were in DC at the famous bookstore Politics and Prose, second of three videos from that very entertaining session, discussing Trump's long association with Roy and more:

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Chris Cillizza interviews me for his Substack, diving into how collaborator Susan and I approached the difficulties of researching such a squirrelly subject for "American Scoundrel". Very enjoyable exchange, thanks to Chris for the lively exchange:

https://t.co/28YWJKNCo2

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Delightful anecdote from Fintan O'Toole in the New York Review of Books about Roy Cohn our American villain--a good read, along with our book "American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joseph McCarthy to Donald Trump".

https://t.co/4Xg90xXIjc

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New York Review of Books published a reflection on how Cohn has now permeated our current government in so many ways. https://t.co/uWX6FqP4uG

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Barnes and Noble podcast "Poured Over" hosted by Miwa Messer. Very much appreciate the chance to discuss the book in-depth and why Kai Bird focused on Roy Cohn in "American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump":

https://t.co/MMWSQgkXzQ