Overview

One man's life unfolds into a memoir of the defining cultural figures of the mid-twentieth century and beyond. I Never Made Love with James Baldwin is a dazzling memoir told through a succession of attorney Stanley Cohen's vivid encounters with some of the most compelling figures of the twentieth century and beyond. Moving between America, Europe, and Asia, Cohen recounts moments shared with artists, writers, jurists, and financiers, including Alexander Calder, Joseph Heller, Robert Caro, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Yehuda Hanani, and members of the Rothschild family. These figures appear not as distant icons but as sharp, human presences-brilliant, eccentric, generous, and flawed. Cohen's life unfolds like a performance, shaped less by planning than by intensity: conversations, friendships, arguments, and coincidences that flare briefly and leave lasting marks. With wit, candor, and an eye for the telling detail, he captures a vast social and creative network spanning the mid-twentieth century to the present. The result is an intimate, unconventional portrait of an exceptional life and of the people who lit its path.

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Author:   Stanley Cohen
Publisher:   Seagull Books London Ltd
Imprint:   Seagull Books London Ltd
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781803096650

ISBN 10:   1803096659
Pages:   440
Publication Date:   05 August 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

1.Acknowledgment 2.On and off a tanker 3.My son Paul and Milan Kundera 4.You don’t belong here 5.Making mountains into hills 6.Cornell, then the sea 7.Still a sophomore 8.To sea again 9.Harvard to Yokohama 10.First love 11.After Harvard, the Army 12.Learning Paris 13.Lawyering in France 14.Villa Seurat 15.Making friends with artists and writers 16.The French 17.Alexander and Louise Calder 18.The hunt 19.Michael Harrington 20.Jewelry and the collapse of France in WW2 21.Max’s Kansas City 22.Turning 30, now what? 23.A law office of my own 24.Skipping out on someone in Israel 25.The Disco Queen 26.Jeanne Moreau 27.Hollywood 28.Turkey, the perfect escape 29.Albert Speer 30.James Baldwin 31.Travels with Toby Molenaar 32.Calder’s legacy 33.A lawyer’s life 34.The Rothschilds 35.Joseph Heller 36.Unfit for retirement 37.More Rothschilds, the Predators’ Ball, Jeffrey Epstein 38.Filmmaking in Desert Hot Springs 39.Japanese American Veterans in Israel 40.WordStar 41.Betty Friedan 42.Patricia Bosworth, Joyce Carol Oates 43.Calder, Jim Haynes, Ted Joans 44.The de Portes incident again 45.Archives 46.Hélène de Portis and Paul Reynaud 47.The fall of France 48.Pauline, then Paul, Arrive 49.The Russian Samovar 50.Paul center stage 51.Carrie arrives

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Born in the Bronx, New York, to a family of modest means, Stanley Cohen was required to make his own way as a teenager. He made his first trip around the world as a merchant seaman. After managing a nightclub in Yokohama, he obtained his law degree from Harvard University and had a distinguished career as an attorney in Paris, representing many prominent personalities.

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