Passion and Power

A Life in Three Worlds

Harriet Newman Cohen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2026
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
9798765164679 (ISBN)

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Through a vivid retelling of some of her most interesting and provocative cases braided together with her personal experiences in and out of the courtroom, Harriet Newman Cohen offers a candid view of the divorce process and what it’s like to be a woman in a male-dominated industry.

Passion and Power is about the life and career of Harriet Newman Cohen, one of the nation’s most celebrated divorce attorneys, as she navigated the male-dominated legal world from the 1970s to today.
This sweeping narrative details Harriet’s journey through three worlds: raising a family at a time when men held all the power, graduating from law school on the cusp of the “divorce revolution,” and re-fighting old battles over women’s rights in today’s time of reaction of retrenchment. The frankness with which Harriet relates her own experience is matched by equally candid insights into how a legal system that often rewards bad behavior and irrational decision-making shapes the culture at large and impacts those trying to navigate their way towards a better life. Writing with candor and humor, Harriet describes her encounters with celebrities, mentors, notable judges, allies, and adversaries. She examines many cases but describes three in almost novelistic detail, all drawn from her own practice—including her pivotal role in the “Case of a Lifetime,” the focus of the three-part documentary HBO series Nuclear Family (2021). Harriet is equally honest about the business side of the law—the financial cost and psychological burden these proceedings impose on families and the sometimes-heartbreaking collateral damage. Passion and Power illuminates both a singular life and the legal and social revolution that changed, in fundamental ways, the sexual, financial, and cultural norms governing the most intimate relations between men and women.

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.

Introduction
PART I: A MAN’S WORLD
1. You’ll Find Out
2. This World and Another
3. Every Unhappy Family
4. Chattering Young Men
Case 1: No Disgrace to be Poor
PART II: AN ADVOCATE’S WORLD
5. Riding the Tsunami
6. Reform…and its Discontents
7. The Divorced and Those about to be Divorced
Case 2: Uncoupling
8. Open for Business
Case 3: Case of a Lifetime
PART III: A NEW WORLD
9. The Names on the Door
10. Kaddish
11. Into the World
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Notes

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.2.2026
Co-Autor	David Feinberg
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Familienrecht
ISBN-13	9798765164679 / 9798765164679
Zustand	Neuware