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A Requiem for Logan Roy
Logan Roy's entrance into the second episode of "Succession" begins with a question: "Why does everybody ask how I'm doing?"
It now looks like a signal to the audience of what's to come. Of course, the question hovering over all four seasons of "Succession" is the mortality of Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and which of his children will succeed him at the head of his companies. Or, perhaps, none of th
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American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
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| The second volume of maybe the best biography of Lewis yet. Poe gets into the heart of Lewis' thought life as well as his life, giving the apologetics and fiction that readers expect, as well as his scholarship. Cuts through some of the myth that has ...more | |