Terry Gross
speaker
23,578 appearances
400 recordings
17 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard yesterday
Terry Gross’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Did you feel like you couldn't misbehave because that would be misbehaving in front of God in a way that people's regular parents who weren't leaders of the church wouldn't feel?
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What did they want you to do that you didn't want to do?
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Foul language.
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goes on and on.
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Yeah, I can keep going,
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Daniel Brooks, it's been such a pleasure to talk with you.
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Thank you so much.
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The need to secure the attention of the fans is relentless.
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This is Fresh Air.
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I'm Terry Gross.
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Back when Donald Trump was getting his start as a real estate developer in his father's business, wanting to branch out from apartments in the boroughs to more ambitious buildings in Manhattan, and trying to find a place for himself among wealthy New Yorkers, celebrities, and power brokers, his lawyer and mentor was the infamous, unethical Roy Cohn.
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Cohn's rules became Trump's rules, writes my guest Kai Bird, in his new biography of Cohn called American Scoundrel.
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Kai Byrd also co wrote the definitive biography of Robert Oppenheimer called American Prometheus, which was the basis of Christopher Nolan's Oscar winning film Oppenheimer.
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Early in Roy Cohn's career, he prosecuted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on charges of espionage.
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They were sent to the electric chair.
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In the nineteen fifties, when Senator Joe McCarthy led the subcommittee that investigated and smeared alleged communists and gay people, ruining their careers and sometimes their lives.
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Cohn was the subcommittee's legal counsel.
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This in spite of Cohn being a closeted gay man himself was
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Cohn moved on to a more lucrative career as the lawyer for leaders of New York's crime families.
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He was connected to several prominent New York politicians and helped Ronald Reagan get elected president.
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