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A page-turner from beginning to end, Passion and Power is the story of one remarkable life and an idiosyncratic, witty, and absorbing tour through recent U.S. history. Harriet Newman Cohen is a funny and edifying guide—precise, curious, warm. Entirely unsentimental. Marriage and its many paths to dissolution is rich territory and this book is filled with the strange, glamorous, desperate, and sadistic characters you hope to meet in the very best novels. I can’t wait to read it again. -- Gillian Linden, author of Negative Space (2024) In Harriet Newman Cohen’s Passion and Power, loss and suffering are among life’s guarantees. So are love and success—if you can find the patience and determination within yourself to open doors everyone but you sees as closed. With each door Harriet opened, what wild dreams came true. -- Beowulf Sheehan, American photographer known for portraits of authors, artists, and celebrities A captivating book packed with intriguing vignettes about the famous and not-so-famous who’ve overcome life’s troubles with the help of a whip-smart lawyer just as lively and engaging as the book itself. -- Amy Gadja, journalist, author of Seek and Hide (2022), lawyer, and professor of Brooklyn Law School

In Harriet Newman Cohen’s Passion and Power, loss and suffering are among life’s guarantees. So are love and success—if you can find the patience and determination within yourself to open doors everyone but you sees as closed. With each door Harriet opened, what wild dreams came true. -- Beowulf Sheehan, photographer

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Harriet Newman Cohen has been practicing law since 1974 and is a founding partner of Cohen Stine Kapoor LLP, a matrimonial and family law practice. A recognized advocate for divorce law reform, she publishes regularly in The New York Law Journal and comments on legal issues on television and radio, online and in the print media, as well as to bench and bar. She is on the Board of Directors of the Lotos Club in New York. Ms. Cohen is also the author of The Divorce Book for Men and Women (1994). David Feinberg, a graduate of Columbia University, is an award-winning journalist and editor.

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