Giuliani presented an elaborate account of his service – as a prosecutor, mayor and leader of a complex society – in this terrific prose. From a starting point of inspiration as a source of strength for leadership, he presented different attributes alongside corresponding details to exemplify virtues of a leader. He loaded each chapter with his day-to-day activities as a mayor – what he learned over years, his struggles with political correctness of the liberal-filled city of New York, the trauma of the event of 9/11 and the respective actions to combat and stem future attacks. My greatest surprise was how he handled the organized crimes in the city of NY – his tactics and experience as an attorney provided the city an inestimable and strong leadership.
I found this book so detailed at explaining the course of leadership, the practicability of leadership and the effectiveness of a passion to lead. He struck adequately how a leader should perceive the society cum his/her immediate surrounding – people that works along to make things happen.
This book would remain a reference for leadership studies, most especially for a metropolitan society.

This is a really interesting read and I was drawn to it as I have an interest in leadership. I enjoyed learning about Giuliani's leadership style but the parts that fascinated me were the city's response to 9/11 and what it meant to be the mayor at such a difficult time. I had no idea what goes on behind the scenes and the things Giuliani has achieved and shares in his book are nothing short of inspirational.

This book was alright. I think Mayor Giuliani did a lot of good for the city of New York and I remember many of the improvements made during his tenure. I really wanted to like this book and while the reading was interesting the depiction of the mayor as a one man solution didn't sit well with me.

I love biographies because all successful people have failure in their past (so I'm on the right track:). If the mayor had any failures none were disclosed in this book. I think it was a mistake not to include some of them.

The overuse of "I" or "me" left me thinking he was egotistical. In discussing the first time he played golf with his son who was a freshman in high school, he told that he would never play with him again because of his son's strict adherence to the rules. Seriously - you blame that on your son?? Nothing bad seemed to be his fault and everything wonderful was.

I listened to this on audio and they may have been a factor. I liked the book but thought less of Giuliani for having read it.

Why did I bail? I think I bought this book when we actually liked Giuliani during the whole 9/11 horror, but now that I know what the guy is really like, I have no interest in reading his book.

The only worthwhile part was the introduction where Giuliani shares his story of what happened on 9/11. The rest is poorly written and forgettable.

I listened to this one on tape (okay, MP3, I guess) and thought it was interesting. It sounds like he did a lot of good for New York. But, if you've read Freakanomics, you know that a lot of the crime rate drops could very well have been attributed to other things. It was interesting to learn what he was doing during Sept. 11th though. Good read, for sure!

I think this book would be especially good for any young person to read who is just starting out in his/her career. It's not just about politics and not even just about leadership, but really about how to function with others and succeed. After reading it and hearing about the way he turned NYC around, I think that had he been elected President, he could have really helped America get turned around. Certainly he would have done a much better job than Obamanation. Giuliani's biggest faults are his unbiblical--and un-Catholic--positions on abortion and homosexuality, but I like the way he thinks on most issues. A bonus in the book is the insights it gives into the 9/11 tragedy from the perspective of the Mayor of NYC. Very moving. Great read! Thanks, Ginger Thompson, for giving me the book!

A friend of mine loaned me a copy of this book. I don't agree with his politics, but I thought this book had some good information. It was a good read.

I had to read this for a college class and it is honestly only one of two books I could not finish, ever. This was horrible. This is a poorly written, annoying book, in which Giuliani shows how full of himself he really is.

I particularly couldn't stand when Giuliani commented that he was upset that 9/11 happened, but glad that it gave him a chance to show what a great leader he was. Why would you make a comment like that?

Phenomenal insights on leadership. Each principle explained with his own real life experience. Amazing read

Provides a list of simple and attainable habits to be the best version of yourself

Oh Rudy. Rudy the hero. Rudy the saint. Rudy the saviour.

Post 9/11 (the event this man has dined out on for 20 years now), Giuliani was a saint with an impeccable reputation, so much so that a major publisher let him write this. Then he went ahead and ruined it all.

We should probably get all of the ‘hair dye leaking and Borat jokes�� out of the way early. His buck-toothed idiot son with no experience wants to run for Governor of New York on the back of his surname, his daughter coming out and saying she likes gangbangs and that he failed as Trump’s lawyer in multiple court cases claiming election fraud. Oh and yeah, he married his cousin.

Man, this man has fallen from greatness since this book was published. He was once’America’s Mayor’ and the great shoulder to cry on after 9/11. But now he’s a pathetic shell of a man, holding press conferences outside a dildo shop and looking very incompetent.

But don’t worry, in LEADERSHIP, he gets in the calling card disaster he has traded on ever since then that dark day twenty years ago in New York. Immediately we get a non-9/11 tale of his heroism (a theme of the book) when he runs into a burning church and saves everyone.

Back to Ground Zero and Rudy visits five times on the day (probably because he is one of the only people allowed there), setting up an emergency control centre and everyone else is banned. Rudy then felt anger when he saw a man leaning out of the 102nd floor before jumping to his death.

I have questions.

How did he know, on the ground, that it was (smoke filling his lungs and eyesight, one imagines), a man and the 102nd floor that he was jumping from? A lot of his experiences on the very front line are questionable.

I feel that some of this book is revisionist history, especially about that disaster but he has brought this upon himself by being a deeply untrustworthy individual in the most recent past. The hands on 9/11 experience is probably you are not going to find better, he’s just a little swine. And its hard to take what he says now in 2021, seriously. But as someone interested in that, it’s fascinating. Just also frustrating. The rest of it is self-serving and incredibly boring. Its a lot of administrative decisions and filling employment posts, mixed with the odd policy here and there.

A big ‘leadership’ message Rudy has is one of ‘accountability’. Why he then went to work for a habitual liar who took zero responsibility for anything that happened on his watch is anyone’s guess.

Top to bottom, this is a four star read, for sure. But his recent behaviour and alliances with the Trump nonsense has earned him two stars. He also doesn’t acknowledge the fact that he allowed members of the Bin Laden family to fly out of New York when nobody else could, on September 12th.

Giuliani has clearly lost his sense of morality, perspective and that quality that he holds so dear in this book, that of being alert, respectful and always with clarity.

Just ask Borat’s daughter.