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Ruthless audiobook
- By: Marie Brenner
- Narrator: Marie Brenner
- Category: Journalism, Language Arts & Disciplines
- Length: 46 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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Ruthless Audiobook Summary
One of the most prolific and influential investigative journalists of her generation, Marie Brenner has brought countless fascinating people–politicians, activists, journalists, and private citizens–to life through her writing. Now, for the first time, her profile of the nefarious relationship between Donald Trump and Roy Cohn is available as an audio download read by the author.
New York attorney Roy Cohn–infamous since the 1950s from his stint as Senator Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel–and Donald Trump first met in 1973 when Trump was still trying to make a name for himself as a real estate developer while fighting discrimination charges against his family’s business. After their chance meeting at a Manhattan disco, Cohn went to work defending Trump, starting a business and personal association that endured in various forms until Cohn’s death in 1986.
Brenner first started reporting on the Trump/Cohn dynamic back in 1980, and she brings to her assessment an incomparable legacy of covering both subjects. As Brenner writes, Cohn “was always there to help with the shady tax abatements, the zoning variances, the sweetheart deals, and the threats to those who might stand in [Trump’s] way,” serving to launch and sustain Trump’s early real estate career.
More than legal representation, however, Cohn offered Trump a way of seeing the world–and the opportunities for seeking advantage within it–that still inform Trump’s approach to politics and governing. As Brenner reports, then president-elect Trump told mutual associate Roger Stone another major character in Ruthless–on the day after his unexpected electoral victory, “Wouldn’t Roy love to see this moment? Boy do we miss him.”
Spanning over 50 years of US history, peopled both with characters long dead and current newsmakers still in today’s headlines, Ruthless is an eye-opening must-listen for anyone who wants to understand how the nation got to where we are today.
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Ruthless Audiobook Narrator
Marie Brenner is the narrator of Ruthless audiobook that was written by Marie Brenner
Marie Brenner is the author of seven books and writer at large for Vanity Fair. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker, a contributing editor at New York, and has won numerous awards for her reporting around the world. Her exposé of the tobacco industry was the basis for the 1999 movie The Insider, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards®, including Best Picture. She is also a producer of the 2019 documentary Where’s My Roy Cohn?
About the Author(s) of Ruthless
Marie Brenner is the author of Ruthless
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Ruthless Full Details
| Narrator | Marie Brenner |
| Length | 46 minutes |
| Author | Marie Brenner |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| Release date | April 24, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781508278269 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Ruthless is Simon & Schuster Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Journalism, Language Arts & Disciplines
Additional info
The publisher of the Ruthless is Simon & Schuster Audio. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Audio. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781508278269.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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