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The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 974.71043092
EAN: 9781594031496
ISBN: 1594031495
Label: Encounter Books
Manufacturer: Encounter Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 374
Publication Date: December 25, 2006
Publisher: Encounter Books
Studio: Encounter Books
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Editorial Review:
The Prince of the City is at once a fascinating character study of one of America's most charismatic public figures, a history of New York over the last forty years, and a classic inquiry into the issue of how cities thrive or die. Siegel's story culminates with a dramatic account of September 11, 2001, revealing how Giuliani's s eight years in office had prepared him and the city to rise to this tragic occasion and how in the aftermath of the attack he became America's Mayor. Siegel concludes with a look at how Guiliani's successor, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, has handled his legacy and at what lies in Guiliani's political future.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - The Real Story About Mayor Guilian's Revolutionary Impact
Bottom Line: A Great Read - If you are interested in New York City
What You Will Learn: This book provides a very positive, but not one-sided perspective on Mayor Guiliani's political life. If you like the inside baseball type stories, including books by Bob Woodward, you will enjoy these details of how Guiliani dealt with all the great characters in New York City, including other famous politicians like Al Sharpton, Congressman Charlie Rangel, and Governor Mariou Cuomo.
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Rating: - Heavily researched, strictly respectful of the facts, and first-rate reading
Written by professor of history Fred Siegel, The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life is an eye-opening look at how Mayor Rudy Giuliani successfully turned around one of America's most troubled cities, beset with budgetary woes, white flight, and skyrocketing crime rates, with an efficiency and eye toward achieving results worthy of Machiavelli's "The Prince". The Prince of the City is as much the story of modern New York itself as it is a portrayal of Giuliani, ... Read More
Rating: - The inner workings of a city in trouble
As other reviewers have pointed out, this is as much the story of New York City since the 1960s as it is of Rudy Giuliani. I ordered it to read more about the mayor since he has become a serious candidate for president. The story of the city and its problems was almost more engaging. The left liberal political culture had run the city into the ground. CUNY, the "poor man's Harvard" had collapsed into a city-wide babysitting service. Teachers who had graduated from CUNY were illiterate and were training ... Read More
Rating:  - prince
This book gave an interesting description of the Giuliani years and the context in which he came to power. It was quite discouraging how so many other New York politicians put their own power and politics above the interested of New Yorkers.
Rating: - a fine biography of one of our most successful politicians to date
This is as much a story of the shark invested waters of being a mayor of New York as it is a biography of Guiliani.
Siegel likes Rudi and it comes through but more importantly Siegel likes New York and his detailed knowledge of its inner workings of this most American city provides a valued backdrop for a compelling tale of electoral politics. The certainty is that politics is race and race is politics and the mothers' milk are jobs and patronage.
He does not spare Dinkins or Pataki or Bloomberg ... Read More
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