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Citizen Cohn

The Life and Times of Roy Cohn

By: Nicholas von Hoffman

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Citizen Cohn

The Life and Times of Roy Cohn

By: Nicholas von Hoffman

No one so famous or controversial led so many secret lives. Loathed by some, and well respected by others, Roy Cohn was known as the toughest and most brilliant lawyer in America. From his role in the Rosenberg trial and as chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy through his extraordinary friendship with J. Edgar Hoover and his vendetta against Robert Kennedy, Cohn's reputation grew larger than life. Presidents, celebrities, gangsters, judges, and endless politicians crossed Cohn’s path, either as friend or foe, including J. Edgar Hoover, Senator Joseph McCarthy, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Ronald Reagan, Robert Kennedy, Barbara Walters, Fat Tony Salerno, Louis Nizer, Si Newhouse, Rupert Murdoch, George Steinbrenner, Donald Trump, and many more. Cohn was the target of numerous indictments and haunted by professional misconduct charges which led to his disbarment shortly before his death. His private life, even more outrageous than his life known to the public, constantly had his name in gossip columns; there were his lovers, his denial of his homosexuality and AIDS diagnosis, and finally his death from AIDS-related cancer in 1986. Nicolas von Hoffman has created a remarkable and provocative biography of a complex life that was driven by power. Interviewing family members, colleagues, clients, friends, and lovers, he gives an extraordinary portrait of the man, his ideological passion, and the patterns of power and money that made him, in the end, one of the most influential men in our society. From hidden bank accounts, numerous incidents of political fixing, and surprising connections, Citizen Cohn reveals the real Roy Cohn.

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Simon and Schuster

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1648210279

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9781648210273

The Promised Land

The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)

By: Nicholas Lemann

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The Promised Land

The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)

By: Nicholas Lemann

A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policymakers at both national and local levels.

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Vintage

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0679733477

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9780679733478

Radical

A Portrait of Saul Alinsky

By: Nicholas Von Hoffman

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Radical

A Portrait of Saul Alinsky

By: Nicholas Von Hoffman

The tactics and strategy of Alinsky, who died in 1972, have been studied by people as diverse as Barack Obama, Csar Chavez, Hilary Clinton, Dick Armey, the Tea Partiers and activists and organizers of every persuasion. Thousands of organizations a...

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1458732320

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9781458732323

Citizen Cohn

The Life and Times of Roy Cohn

By: Nicholas von Hoffman

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The Life and Times of Roy Cohn

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We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against

By: Nicholas von Hoffman

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We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against

By: Nicholas von Hoffman

Books about the sixties have proliferated in recent years, but none has surpassed Nicholas von Hoffman's classic account of the 1960s counter-culture in San Francisco. “In the summer of 1967,” he writes, “youth drew attention to itself by clustering in large numbers in most major American cities, where they broke the narcotics laws proudly, publicly, and defiantly. At the same time, they enunciated a different social philosophy and a new politics, and perhaps even mothered into life a subculture that was new to America. This book tries to explain what happened in the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco. For it was in the Haight that whatever happened, happened most vividly and so intensely that it drew international attention to itself.” “An impressively serious treatment.”—New York Times. “A rare example of journalism that approaches art in one direction and the best of social science in another.”—Newsweek.

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280

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493083902

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9781493083909

Chomsky

Ideas and Ideals

By: Neil Smith,Nicholas Allott

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Chomsky

Ideas and Ideals

By: Neil Smith,Nicholas Allott

A radically revised and updated account of Noam Chomsky's thought and its revolutionary impact on linguistics, psychology, philosophy and politics.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107082145

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9781107082144

How States Shaped Postwar America

State Government and Urban Power

By: Nicholas Dagen Bloom

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How States Shaped Postwar America

State Government and Urban Power

By: Nicholas Dagen Bloom

The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking the crucial work done by individual states in the 1960s and ’70s. In this book, Nicholas Dagen Bloom demonstrates the significant and enduring impact of activist states in five areas: urban planning and redevelopment, mass transit and highways, higher education, subsidized housing, and the environment. Bloom centers his story on the example set by New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, whose aggressive initiatives on the pressing issues in that period inspired others and led to the establishment of long-lived state polices in an age of decreasing federal power. Metropolitan areas, for both better and worse, changed and operated differently because of sustained state action—How States Shaped Postwar America uncovers the scope of this largely untold story.

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University of Chicago Press

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022649831X

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9780226498317

Public Housing That Worked

New York in the Twentieth Century

By: Nicholas Dagen Bloom

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Public Housing That Worked

New York in the Twentieth Century

By: Nicholas Dagen Bloom

When it comes to large-scale public housing in the United States, the consensus for the past decades has been to let the wrecking balls fly. The demolition of infamous projects, such as Pruitt-Igoe in St. Louis and the towers of Cabrini-Green in Chicago, represents to most Americans the fate of all public housing. Yet one notable exception to this national tragedy remains. The New York City Housing Authority, America's largest public housing manager, still maintains over 400,000 tenants in its vast and well-run high-rise projects. While by no means utopian, New York City's public housing remains an acceptable and affordable option. The story of New York's success where so many other housing authorities faltered has been ignored for too long. Public Housing That Worked shows how New York's administrators, beginning in the 1930s, developed a rigorous system of public housing management that weathered a variety of social and political challenges. A key element in the long-term viability of New York's public housing has been the constant search for better methods in fields such as tenant selection, policing, renovation, community affairs, and landscape design. Nicholas Dagen Bloom presents the achievements that contradict the common wisdom that public housing projects are inherently unmanageable. By focusing on what worked, rather than on the conventional history of failure and blame, Bloom provides useful models for addressing the current crisis in affordable urban housing. Public Housing That Worked is essential reading for practitioners and scholars in the areas of public policy, urban history, planning, criminal justice, affordable housing management, social work, and urban affairs.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812201329

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9780812201321

Planning Paris Before Haussmann

By: Nicholas Papayanis

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Planning Paris Before Haussmann

By: Nicholas Papayanis

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JHU Press

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0801879302

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Hoax

Why Americans are Sucked by White House Lies

By: Nicholas von Hoffman

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Hoax

Why Americans are Sucked by White House Lies

By: Nicholas von Hoffman

How is it that the majority of Americans believed the fabrications of the Bush administration in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq when people in other countries, even those who enlisted in "the coalition of the willing," didn't buy them? Something has happened here and nowhere else, argues provocateur and gadfly Nicholas von Hoffman. It is something that impels vast numbers of Americans to believe the unbelievable when served up by its war-loving government. Best-selling author von Hoffman reveals how the American people have been gulled into cheering for a gigantic hoax by the Bush administration. "It happened because America has manufactured its own reality. A dome has slipped over the country, turning the nation into a unique biosphere which causes Americans to see, hear, and interpret every event and each happenstance as no other people do. Poisoned by recycled, unrefreshed air, Americans think differently." Hoax is both an impassioned exploration of American propaganda and public opinion, and an urgent dissection of our culture and way of life.

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Nation Books

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156025582X

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9781560255826

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We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against

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Chomsky

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How States Shaped Postwar America

How States Shaped Postwar America

Public Housing That Worked

Public Housing That Worked

Planning Paris Before Haussmann

Planning Paris Before Haussmann

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