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Big fan of the former mayor of New York, interesting novel detailing his life
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Rudy!: An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani
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First Edition. Stated. Tear, some creasing to DJ. Pages are crisp, clean. Binding is tight.
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nonfictionnew yorkbiography
512 pages, Hardcover
First published July 25,2000
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512 pages, Hardcover
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July 25, 2000 by Basic Books
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9780465005239
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0465005233
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English
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Rudy Giuliani
An American lawyer, businessman, former politician, and public speaker from New York. He served as Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001. Giuliani gained international attention for his leadership during and after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the ...
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Wayne Barrett was an American journalist. He worked as an investigative reporter and senior editor for The Village Voice for 37 years, and was known as a leading investigative journalist focused on power and politics in the United States. He is known as New York City's "foremost muckraker."
“Our credo must be the exposure of the plunderers, the steerers, the wirepullers, the bosses, the brokers, the campaign givers and takers,” Barrett once said to journalism students at his alma mater, Columbia University. “So I say: Stew, percolate, pester, track, burrow, besiege, confront, damage, level, care.”
“Our credo must be the exposure of the plunderers, the steerers, the wirepullers, the bosses, the brokers, the campaign givers and takers,” Barrett once said to journalism students at his alma mater, Columbia University. “So I say: Stew, percolate, pester, track, burrow, besiege, confront, damage, level, care.”
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the possibilities are endless, i could be mayor? perhaps
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I read this book months before 9-11 because I wanted to get an idea of the man that turned around NYC from the hellhole that it was. Yeah, I learned that he's a guy that you probably wouldn't want to work for, but not many can dispute what he's done.
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