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January 15, 2021

REVIEW: A New Yorker Writer's Well-Timed Biography of a Man Named Biden

January 15, 2021/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: A New Yorker Writer's Well-Timed Biography of a Man Named Biden

A Life Marked by Extraordinary Tragedies — and Successes

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January 15, 2021/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Joe Biden, Presidency, Biography
April 11, 2019

REVIEW: Robert Caro, Pre-Eminent Biographer, Tells Us How He Does What He Does

April 11, 2019/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: Robert Caro, Pre-Eminent Biographer, Tells Us How He Does What He Does

On Researching, Writing, and Coming to Terms with His Great Subject: Power

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April 11, 2019/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Robert Caro, Biography, Writing Techniques
January 26, 2018

REVIEW: A Son's Memoir of the Golden Age of Cartoonists

January 26, 2018/ Adam Cohen
REVIEW: A Son's Memoir of the Golden Age of Cartoonists

The World of John Cullen Murphy, Drawer of Prince Valiant, and His Friends

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January 26, 2018/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
Review
Cartoons, Humor, Biography
April 08, 2016

Q&A: The Pioneering Female New Deal Lawyer Who Went from an Orphan's Home to the Supreme Court

April 08, 2016/ Adam Cohen
Q&A: The Pioneering Female New Deal Lawyer Who Went from an Orphan's Home to the Supreme Court

Bessie Margolin shaped equal rights law for generations -- and prosecuted Nazis

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April 08, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ 2 Comments
Q & A
New Deal, Law, Women, Supreme Court, Biography
December 17, 2015

Read This: The Beautiful, Glamorous, Brutal, Legendary Life of Frank Sinatra

December 17, 2015/ Adam Cohen
Read This: The Beautiful, Glamorous, Brutal, Legendary Life of Frank Sinatra

Kaplan reminds us how much drama and mayhem -- and singing and acting -- Sinatra packed into just the second half of his life

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December 17, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Frank Sinatra, James Kaplan, Biography, Music, Mafia
November 23, 2015

5 Hot Books: Paris's Best Street, How to Beat Cancer, and a Transgender Novel

November 23, 2015/ Adam Cohen
5 Hot Books: Paris's Best Street, How to Beat Cancer, and a Transgender Novel

Books People Are Talking About This Week -- Or Should Be

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November 23, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
The Hot 5
Fiction, Biography, Medicine, Cancer, Paris
September 30, 2015

Review: The Amazing Adventures of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Connor

September 30, 2015/ Adam Cohen
Review: The Amazing Adventures of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Connor

By Eileen Hershenov

How a Supreme Court Odd Couple Fought for Women's Equality

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September 30, 2015/ Adam Cohen/ 2 Comments
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Law, Supreme Court, Women, Biography, Non-Fiction, Eileen Hershenov
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