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Culture Culture The Age of Cohn A new biography of the notorious lawyer sheds light on the Trump era. American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey From Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump, by Kai Bird with Susan Goldmark. Scribner. 528 pages “Leave Donald alone,” Roy Cohn warned a federal prosecutor. “He’s going to be big one day.” The author Kai Bird takes us back to the mid-1970s, when Roy Marcus Cohn, the erstwhile McCarthyite witchhunter-turned–lawyer-fixer for notorious New York City mobsters, was defending Donald Trump, then 27 and on the make, in a racial discrimination…Open