Roy Cohn was a brutal genius - an attorney with a future - and he knew it. First taking the Rosenbergss to trial as spies, ensuring he got them the death penalty; then destroying lives as Senator Joe McCarthy's right-hand man in the Communist witch hunts of the 1950's; and on to America under the Kennedys where he fought their support of civil rights, befriending the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover and attempting to undermine the leadership of Martin Luther King. Roy Cohn could make or break the strongest men in America just for the thrill of the kill. Ruthless, destructive, power hungry and insatiable, to many he was a national hero; to many more, a national disgrace.
