Giuliani
Flawed or Flawless? The Oral Biography
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2007
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-471-73835-0 (ISBN)
Description
The right man in the right place at the worst possible time
"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
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Edition
1., Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Turner Publishing Company
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 243 mm
Width: 167 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
645 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-73835-0 (9780471738350)
Schweitzer Classification
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Persons
Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober are the authors of His Holiness the Dalai Lama: The Oral Biography and Billy Graham: An Oral and Narrative Biography, both available from Wiley, and four previous oral histories, including Let Us Begin Anew: An Oral History of the Kennedy Presidency and Reagan: The Man and His Presidency. They are longtime residents of New York City.
Content
Acknowledgments.
The Interviewees.
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.