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During his reign as the mayor of New York, the controversial Giuliani has been called many names. But after September 11, 2001, New York had new words to descibe him.

In this riveting and updating edition, political reporter Andrew Kirtzman tells the story of Giuliani's tireless mission to cleanup, control, shape, and — most recently — heal New York City.

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Overview

During his reign as the mayor of New York, the controversial Giuliani has been called many names. But after September 11, 2001, New York had new words to descibe him.

In this riveting and updating edition, political reporter Andrew Kirtzman tells the story of Giuliani's tireless mission to cleanup, control, shape, and — most recently — heal New York City.

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Following the tragic events of September 11, 2001, New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani was lauded as a national symbol of courage under fire. In this paperback edition of his bestselling hardcover, author Andrew Kirtzman tells the story of how one man rose to the top job in the greatest city in the world, and prospered there. How did Rudy turn the city around? And what did he personally experience on 9/11?
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A (gasp!) fair-minded study of Rudy Giuliani, brimming with insider anecdotes and telling insights.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780060093891
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 11/28/2001
  • Edition description: UPDATED
  • Pages: 384
  • Sales rank: 709,626
  • Series: Harper Perennial
  • Product dimensions: 6.12 (w) x 9.25 (h) x 0.96 (d)

Meet the Author

Andrew Kirtzman has written a biography of Rudy Giuliani, covered more than a dozen national political campaigns for print and television, and hosted two of New York's most widely watched public affairs shows. In September 1999, Brill's Content magazine named Kirtzman one of New York's 10 Most Influential Journalists. In 2003, his week-in-review feature "Kirtzman's Column" won an Emmy Award for outstanding political programming.

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The Runner Stumbles

Rain was falling on the campaign van as it wound through the streets of Manhattan toward the Metropolitan Republican Club. The trip to the Giuliani-for-Mayor kickoff ceremony should have been a joyous occasion. But as the candidate traveled through midtown traffic this dreary May morning in 1989, there was more desperation in the air than anything else.

Ray Harding had worried about the Giuliani crew from the beginning. "Smart guys, no experience," the Liberal Party chief had said. "How do I know this isn't Amateur Night at the Bijou?" The question hovered over Rudy Giuliani as he mapped strategy to contain the disaster of the day, a front-page story in the morning's Daily News disclosing that his law firm was registered as a foreign agent for Panama, as the U.S. government was charging General Manuel Noriega with cocaine trafficking. Giuliani wasn't the dictator's lawyer, but the distinction was lost on its way to the front page.

Harding was back at Liberal Party headquarters wondering how it could all be going so wrong. The candidate's huge lead in the polls was disintegrating. The campaign was running out of cash. Giuliani's strategists were lumping from crisis to crisis, while the candidate flailed about on the campaign trail.

When his moment came, Giuliani walked into the tiny space in whichFiorello LaGuardia had announced his run for mayor fifty-six years earlier. Dozens of sweat-soaked reporters were already there, squeezed against banks of television cameras. Giuliani introduced his wife, Donna, and held his three-year-old son, Andrew, aloft for the cameras. Then he launched into a tirade against the forces thathad overtaken New York.

"Now is the time to take back our city from the violent criminals on our streets and the white-collar criminals in their office suites," he said, "from the drug dealers in abandoned buildings and the crooked politicians who have abandoned their oath of office.

"It is time to restore the reputation of New York, so that once again our city will be known for its libraries, its universities, its culture, its industry, and its spirit -- not as it is known today for crime, crack, and corruption."

It was time, he said, "to take our streets, parks, and subways back from the criminals."

"No deals for jobs, no deals for contributors," he pledged. "What you see is what you get."

When he finished his speech, the candidate stuck to the game plan and took no questions. It was a strategy that made Harding furious: How could Giuliani ignore the New York City press corps on the day he launched his campaign? It was insanity. Sure enough, reporters shouted their questions to him as he made his way out of the room: Did he know about the Noriega connection? What would he do about it? Would he quit his law firm?

Within forty-eight hours, a commercial was running on television attacking him. "Rudy Giuliani is being paid almost one million dollars by the law firm that represents Panama's drug dictator Noriega," an announcer intoned as a picture of the general appeared next to Giuliani's. It was paid for by Giuliani's opponent in the Republican primary, Ronald Lauder, a multi-millionaire propped up by Senator Al D'Amato.

Soon afterward Mayor Ed Koch, the Democratic incumbent, jumped into the fray, accusing Giuliani of taking "drug money."

"My is it unfair, if Noriega would be arrested by some foreign marshal, to talk about the fact that he might call Rudy on the phone?" Koch asked reporters. Twisting the knife a little further, he questioned why Giuliani's firm, White & Case, had no black or Hispanic partners.

Giuliani fell into his trap. "Koch is intelligent enough to know he's lying" about his having taken drug money, he told reporters the next day. "I expect him to lie. With Lauder, who knows?" Lauder, he said, was "an incompetent" who "never had to work for a living." The front page of the next day's Newsday read "RUDY SNARLS."

Sensing weakness, D'Amato went in for the kill, appearing on CNBC to pronounce the Noriega question perfectly fair. "I don't believe you join a law firm like White and Case and get one million dollars and don't even know who your clients are," he said, almost doubling the size of Giuliani's salary. "Are they buying access to City Hall? That's a tough question, a fair question -- they pay you one million dollars to run for mayor?"

It was a classic New York feeding frenzy, sparked by an issue that was completely meaningless. Giuliani was getting banged around by politicians far more seasoned at this kind of game than he. The rookie candidate had kept a non-story alive and revived questions about his temperament in the process. Finally, on June 5 -- nineteen days after he announced his candidacy for mayor -- Giuliani put the Noriega story out of its misery and took a leave of absence from White & Case.

The candidate took a breath, then set out on another mission, which was to understand why his run for mayor, which had started out with so much promise, was unraveling.

0n January 11, 1989, the front page of the New York Post featured a huge photo of New York's best-known prosecutor holding an automatic pistol with a long black silencer. "GOOD NEWS FOR BAD GUYS," the headline roared. "Crimebuster Giuliani steps down."

America's most celebrated U.S. attorney had gathered his closest aides together and announced to a room full of reporters that he was resigning. "I hope the legacy we leave," he said solemnly, "is the continued emphasis on the need to reform the way in which we do business and practice politics..."

Rudy Giuliani. Copyright © by Andrew Kirtzman. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
1. The Runner Stumbles 1
2. "We Have a City to Save" 32
3. The New Order 63
4. The Big Sweep 84
5. The Control Machine 97
6. The Mayor and His Little Victim 112
7. Rudy and Mario 127
8. The Press Gal 140
9. Ragin' Rudy 159
10. "Happy King Day!" Giuliani and the Black Community 178
11. The Gang Cracks Up 192
12. Demon 221
13. The Reluctant Candidate 254
14. "The Tower Is Coming Down" 289
Acknowledgments 307
Chronology 309
Notes 317
Index 339

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    Great book.

    This was an extremely well-researched, thoughtful, and perhaps most importantly, balanced book. Although Mr. Giuliani is largely lampooned by most in the media as only having done September 11th "right", this book illustrates the creativity and genius of a man who largely made New York City what it is today. A well-written account of an important period of New York City's history, and perhaps its most influential mayor next to Fiorello LaGuardia.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 8, 2002

    Biased but informative

    This book gives an informative look at Rudy Giuliani while displaying the author's obvious distaste for his subject. Kirtzman spends the entire biography depersonalizing Giuliani, only then to give an account in the final chapter of the book of Giuliani's blatant love and affection for New York and New Yorkers on September 11th and the months to follow. The biography showed a harsh side of Giuliani given through his enemies and rivals' accounts. Giuliani did not cooperate with the book. People who clashed with the mayor appeared more than ready to have their opinion in print. Without intending to, Kirtzman proved the loyalty and trust that those closest to Giuliani possess through their lack of of quotations throughout the biography. Overall, Kirtzman tells a good story about a great man as only one beyond the mayor's inner circle could tell it.

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