The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life

Written by:
Fred Siegel
Narrated by:
Brian Emerson

Unabridged Audiobook

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Release Date
January 2006
Duration
14 hours 24 minutes
Summary
In the dark days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Rudy Giuliani established himself as “America’s mayor.” This first post-9/11 account of his career shows how Giuliani’s successes in New York set a promising example for the rejuvenation of our major cities.

As one who has worked with him as well as studied him, Fred Siegel regards Giuliani as a shrewd tactician and artist of the possible, who could have stepped out of the pages of Machiavelli’s The Prince. A self-promoting, self-absorbed man, the mayor made his enormous ego and tribal ethos serve the city’s well-being, promoting ideals that transcended New York’s ethnic politics and business as usual. The Prince of the City is at once a fascinating character study, a history of New York over the last forty years, and a classic inquiry into the issue of how cities thrive or die.
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Even non-New Yorkers are aware of Mayor Giuliani's leadership following the attack of 9/11. But this book details much more of Giuliani's years as Mayor of N.Y. Siegel portrays the Mayor as a tireless and shrewd tactician and a visionary leader. The book shows how NY was turned around during the Giuliani years, seeing improvements in crime reduction, private housing ownership increases, welfare reduction, quality of life improvements, economy, budget, education, etc., all accomplished while being able to reduce taxes. People who see educational improvement and poverty reduction as being proportional to spending may not like what they read here, since Giuliani was able to forge improvements by introducing work-fare vs. welfare and fighting for educational program improvements by cutting waste. Many interesting stories and details, and you have to look favorably upon the Giulaini approach to governance when compared to Mayor Lindsey, Mayor Dinkins, etc.

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