Terry Gross

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23,578 appearances 400 recordings 17 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 2d ago

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Fresh Air · The Roy Cohn Playbook, from McCarthyism to Trump · 17 Sep 2026 podcast

If you're just joining us, my guest is Kai Byrd, author of the new book American Scoundrel, Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump. voice-verified

We'll be right back. voice-verified

This is Fresh Air. voice-verified

This is fresh air. voice-verified

Let's get back to my interview with Kai Byrd, author of the new book American Scoundrel, Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump. voice-verified

Cohn was Donald Trump's lawyer and mentor. voice-verified

Because one of Roy Cohn's rules was like don't leave a paper trail he didn't leave a paper trail. voice-verified

That's not good for a biographer like you. voice-verified

So you had to find yeah, you had to find like alternate means. voice-verified

You had the uh voice-verified

FBI files are you look at after suing. voice-verified

You had like some notes from other people's work. voice-verified

Jeremy Strong, who played Roy Cohn in the movie The Apprentice, uh which was about the relationship between Trump and Roy Cohn, he turned over his research uh to you. voice-verified

But you also found that Michael Stipe from R.E.M. voice-verified

had an archive of Roy Cohn stuff that he bought at auction voice-verified

What was in that that was of um use for you and your biography? voice-verified

So w one of the photos and I can't remember if whether this was in Michael Stipes collection or you found it someplace else, but Robert Maplethorpe voice-verified

who started off doing like celebrity photos and then ended up doing a lot of very controversial photos of um gay men often like engaged in a sexual act. voice-verified

And this was this huge controversy because he had some funding from the NEA, the National Endowment for the Arts. voice-verified

And that was part of the whole controversy about federal funding for the arts and what should be allowed to be voice-verified

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