Giuliani: Flawed or Flawless?: The Oral Biography

ISBN-13: 9780471738350 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 352 str.

Deborah H. Strober; Gerald S. Strober

Opis

As he took charge of his city's response to the 9/11 attacks, New York City's mayor Rudy Giuliani became the most admired man in America, and perhaps the world. Featuring interviews with longtime political associates, teachers, protegees, and friends, as well as his opponents, critics, and other astute political observers, Giuliani presents a living portrait of one of the most prominent and controversial politicians of our era.

Recenzje

"Let's give Rudy credit: he knew that not just the people of the City of New York were going to watch his every move and listen to his every word, but that the entire world was going to be looking to him for guidance, for updates, for information, and Rudy rose to the occasion. Rudy is a seasoned politician with thirty years of law enforcement training to fall back on; he had all of his connections with the Justice Department, with the Police Department, with the law enforcement community, so he was a good mayor to have in place at the time. You were not dealing with just an act of trauma or a terrible act of natural devastation; this was an intentional act of criminal conduct, and he understood not only about preserving the crime scene but doing the rescue operation. He understood that more than other mayors would have, even if they were more popular. Rudy had command of that naturally, based on his experience, and that gave comfort to the world - that the person in charge of New York was someone who had brought the Mafia to its knees; who had taken on big business; who was not going to be intimidated. He rose to the occasion and a lot of people who hated him before 9/11 are among his biggest fans now." (Benjamin Brafman, partner, Brafman Associates, PC, from Giuliani)

Spis treści

From the Contents:
Acknowledgments
The Interviewers

PART I: THE SOFTER, GENTLER RUDY GIULIANI
1 The Mayor's Poignant Last State of the City Address
2 Who Is Rudy Giuliani?

PART II: BEGINNINGS: BROOKLYN AND LONG ISLAND
3 A Yankee Fan in "God's Kingdom": Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School

PART III: CRIME BUSTER
4 From Street-Smart Rudy in the Ivy League Southern District of New York (SDNY) to Number Three in the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney for the SDNY: A Smaller Pond in the Swim to City Hall?
5 Prosecutorial Hits and Misses

PART IV: THE POLITICAL AGENDA
6 Act One: Rudy the Loser
7 Act Two, Scene One: Rudy the Winner

PART V: THE FIRST TERM: JANUARY 2, 1994-DECEMBER 31, 1997
8 Getting the Giuliani Administration Up and Running
9 Administrative Style
10 Hizzoner the Mayor: Saint Rudy or Mussolini on the Hudson?
11 The Mayor and the NYPD

PART VI: THREE TRAGIC INCIDENTS: THE ISSUE OF EXCESSIVE FORCE BY THE NYPD
12 Louima
13 Diallo
14 Dorismond

PART VII: THE SECOND TERM: JANUARY 1, 1998-DECEMBER 31, 2001
15 Act Two, Scene Two: Rudy the Winner

PART VIII: SEPTEMBER 11
16 Heroism, Grief, and Decision
17 Wednesday-Morning Quarterbacking
18 The Aftermath

PART IX: LIFE AFTER CITY HALL
19 Giuliani Partners, or Rudy the Very, Very, Very Rich Man
20 Gazing into the Crystal Ball: The Presidency in Rudy's Future
Index.