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Citizen Cohn, by Nicholas von Hoffman (Doubleday, 360 pp„ $19.95)

When Roy Cohn knew he was dying, he began to write—and then, as weakness overcame him, to dictate—his autobiography. He died long before the job was done, and it was taken over and completed by his friend Sidney Zion. The result—ambiguously titled The Autobiography of Roy Cohn by Sidney Zion (reviewed in NR, April 29)—arrived in bookstores more or less simultaneously with this unauthorized biography by a well-known Washington gossip columnist.

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Citizen Cohn, by Nicholas von Hoffman (Doubleday, 360 pp„ $19.95)

When Roy Cohn knew he was dying, he began to write—and then, as weakness overcame him, to dictate—his autobiography. He died long before the job was done, and it was taken over and completed by his friend Sidney Zion. The result—ambiguously titled The Autobiography of Roy Cohn by Sidney Zion (reviewed in NR, April 29)—arrived in bookstores more or less simultaneously with this unauthorized biography by a well-known Washington gossip columnist.