“You shouldn’t have put your content on the internet if you didn’t want it to be on the internet,” Common Crawl’s executive director says.
Every book needs a title, and Kai Bird knew his back when the pitch itself was a tough sell. “It was hard to persuade publishers in 2022 that Roy Cohn was a significant historical figure,” he said.
This sounds almost quaint, coming from the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of American Prometheus, the inspiration for the movie, Oppenheimer.
Rather than an insignificant figure, Bird described Roy Cohn as the "connective tissue" linking two eras of American politics, a theme indeed captured by the bestseller's title, American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump.
Bird and researcher/coauthor Susan Goldmark were in conversation with the Silurian's own David Margolick, a veteran journalist and author, who also shared his own experiences covering Roy Cohn.
