The Contender: Andrew Cuomo, a Biography

The Contender: Andrew Cuomo, a Biography

by Michael Shnayerson
The Contender: Andrew Cuomo, a Biography

The Contender: Andrew Cuomo, a Biography

by Michael Shnayerson

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Overview

A no-holds-barred biography of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Andrew Cuomo is the protagonist of an ongoing political saga that reads like a novel. In many ways, his rise, fall, and rise again is an iconic story: a young American politician of vaunting ambition, aiming for nothing less than the presidency. Building on his father's political success, a first run for governor in 2002 led to a stinging defeat, and a painful, public divorce from Kerry Kennedy, scion of another political dynasty, Cuomo had to come back from seeming political death and reinvent himself.

He did so, brilliantly, by becoming New York's attorney general, and compiling a record that focused on public corruption. In winning the governorship in 2010, he promised to clean up America's most corrupt legislature. He is blunt and combative, the antithesis of the glad-handing, blow-dried senator or governor who tries to please one and all. He's also proven he can make his legislature work, alternately charming and arm-twisting his colleagues with a talent for political strategy reminiscent of President Lyndon Johnson. Political pundits tend to agree that for Cuomo, a run for the White House is not a question of whether, but when.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781538754269
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication date: 08/04/2020
Pages: 544
Sales rank: 675,376
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Michael Shnayerson is a long-time contributing editor to Vanity Fair and the author of eight books on a range of non-fiction subjects, from biographies of entertainer Harry Belafonte (My Song) and New York governor Andrew Cuomo (The Contender) to narrative-driven accounts of drug-resistant bacteria (The Killer Within) and mountaintop coal removal (Coal River). Shnayerson is married to Gayfryd Steinberg, and lives in Sag Harbor and Manhattan.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The High Point 1

Chapter 2 The Men in the Family 15

Chapter 3 From Andy to Andrew 33

Chapter 4 A Loyalty Like Heat 47

Chapter 5 The Enforcer 62

Chapter 6 A Cause to Embrace 74

Chapter 7 In Search of a Killing 86

Chapter 8 Cuomolot 101

Chapter 9 Waterloo in White Plains 116

Chapter 10 Mr. Cuomo Goes to Washington 129

Chapter 11 Rise to Power 143

Chapter 12 Mr. Secretary 154

Chapter 13 A Nemesis to Contend With 168

Chapter 14 A Last Chance for Change 181

Chapter 15 Running into the Ground 200

Chapter 16 Hitting Bottom 222

Chapter 17 Attorney General with a Vengeance 239

Chapter 18 Managing the Meltdown 253

Chapter 19 Man of the People 272

Chapter 20 Going for Governor 283

Chapter 21 A State in Need of Saving 296

Chapter 22 Like Midas 313

Chapter 23 Making Enemies 325

Chapter 24 The Great Allure of Gaming 346

Chapter 25 Guns and Butter 365

Chapter 26 Scandalmania 384

Chapter 27 Less Is Moreland 397

Chapter 28 Starting Again 421

Chapter 29 Full Circle 435

Notes 453

Acknowledgments 515

Index 517

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