Giuliani: Flawed or Flawless?

Gerald S. Strober, Deborah Hart Strober

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As he took charge of his city’s response to the 9/11 attacks, New York City's mayor Rudy Giuliani became the most admired man in America, and perhaps the world. Featuring interviews with longtime political associates, teachers, protégées, and friends, as well as his opponents, critics, and other astute political observers, Giuliani presents a living portrait of one of the most prominent and controversial politicians of our era.

Sujets

• Political
• Lettres et linguistique
• Nueva York
• Biography
• History of the United States
• List of mayors of New York City
• Rudy Giuliani
• Autobiography
• Rudolph Giuliani
• 9
• 11
• New York

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2007
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781620459638
• Langue: English

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Giuliani
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Giuliani
Flawed or Flawless?
THE ORAL BIOGRAPHY

Deborah Hart Strober Gerald S. Strober

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Strober, Deborah H. (Deborah Hart), date.
Giuliani : flawed or flawless? the oral biography / Deborah Hart Strober, Gerald S. Strober.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-471-73835-0 (cloth)
1. Giuliani, Rudolph W. 2. Mayors-New York (State)-New York-Biography. 3. New York (N.Y.)-Politics and government-1951-I. Strober, Gerald S. II. Title.
F128.57.G58S77 2007
974.7 1043092-dc22 [B]
200620141
Printed in the United States of America
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To our grandchildren, with deep love and appreciation of your uniqueness
Eyal Jonathan Benjamin
Ran Michael Benjamin
Kai Wesley Philip Sterling
Marley Grace Sterling
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
The Interviewees
PART I THE SOFTER, GENTLER RUDY GIULIANI
1 The Mayor s Poignant Last State of the City Address

2 Who Is Rudy Giuliani?
PART II BEGINNINGS: BROOKLYN AND LONG ISLAND
3 A Yankee Fan in God s Kingdom : Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School
PART III CRIME BUSTER

4 From Street-Smart Rudy in the Ivy League Southern District of New York (SDNY) to Number Three in the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney for the SDNY: A Smaller Pond in the Swim to City Hall?
5 Prosecutorial Hits and Misses
PART IV THE POLITICAL AGENDA
6 Act One: Rudy the Loser

7 Act Two, Scene One: Rudy the Winner
PART V THE FIRST TERM: JANUARY 2, 1994-DECEMBER 31, 1997
8 Getting the Giuliani Administration Up and Running

9 Administrative Style

10 Hizzoner the Mayor: Saint Rudy or Mussolini on the Hudson?

11 The Mayor and the NYPD
PART VI THREE TRAGIC INCIDENTS: THE ISSUE OF EXCESSIVE FORCE BY THE NYPD
12 Louima

13 Diallo

14 Dorismond
PART VII THE SECOND TERM: JANUARY 1, 1998-DECEMBER 31, 2001
15 Act Two, Scene Two: Rudy the Winner
PART VIII SEPTEMBER 11
16 Heroism, Grief, and Decision

17 Wednesday-Morning Quarterbacking

18 The Aftermath
PART IX LIFE AFTER CITY HALL
19 Giuliani Partners, or Rudy the Very, Very, Very Rich Man

20 Gazing into the Crystal Ball: The Presidency in Rudy s Future
Index
Illustrations follow page 110
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Giuliani: Flawed or Flawless? The Oral Biography could not have come to fruition without the participation of our interviewees, all of whom provided valuable insights into the life and career of our subject.
We would also like to thank Calvin Alexander, Maryann McHugh Feeney, Marc Rosenbaum, and Nancy Watson.
At John Wiley Sons, we wish to express our appreciation to our editor, Hana Lane, who encouraged us to go forward with our oral biography of the former mayor, and whose editing skills we greatly admire. We also appreciate the efforts of Hana s very able assistant, Naomi Rothwell, and our production editor, Kimberly Monroe-Hill.
We are truly fortunate in having a circle of friends who have supported us in all of our literary undertakings and who offered special encouragement as we went about exploring the complexities and political activities of Rudolph Giuliani. They include Bonnie Cutler and her husband, Mark Heutlinger; Evelyn and Raphael Rothstein; Marcia and Rabbi A. James Rudin; Florence and Harry Taubenfeld; Sarah and Ze ev Shiff; Elaine and Martin Zuckerbrod; and Sheila and Herbert Zweibon.
And how could we have made it through these many months without the devotion of our family? We want to express our deep appreciation to Judith and Dr. Mortimer Civan; Mindy and Myron Strober; Joseph Hochstein; and Ruth Hockstein.
Through our children, we are privileged to know and to count among our close friends Dorrit and Meir Nocham, parents of Jeremy s wife, Gabi; Daphne and Hummarde Sterling, parents of Lori s husband, Bryan; Gene Meyers, father of Robin s friend Michelle; and Gene s wife, Jan Book.
Lastly, we want to pay tribute to our beloved, always supportive children and their partners: Jeremy Benjamin and Gabi, parents of Eyal Jonathan and Ran Michael; Lori and Bryan Sterling, parents of Kai Wesley Philip and Marley Grace; Jonathan Strober; and Robin Strober and Michelle Meyers.
THE INTERVIEWEES
Floyd Abrams, an attorney specializing in First Amendment issues, is a member of the firm Cahill Gordon Reindell. He represented the Brooklyn Museum in Mayor Rudolph Giuliani s suit against that institution. Mr. Abrams has served since 1994 as the William J. Brennan Jr. Visiting Professor of First Amendment Issues, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He was interviewed on September 18, 2005, in New York City.
Eric Adams, a now retired captain in the New York City Police Department (NYPD), first interacted with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in the 1980s, when Captain Adams served as chairman of the Grand Council of Guardians, a coalition of African American police officers. He later commanded a precinct in Manhattan s Greenwich Village. He was interviewed on October 6, 2005, in New York City.
Steven R. Andrews, an attorney, represented James Dahl, an associate of Michael Milkens at Drexel Burnham Lambert. He is a partner in the firm Andrews Moye, located in Tallahassee, Florida. He was interviewed on October 18, 2005, by telephone.
Herman Badillo, an attorney, is a founding partner of the New York City firm Fischbein Badillo Wagner Harding. He served as borough president of the Bronx from 1966 to 1970; as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-NY) from 1971 to 1978; and as deputy mayor of the City of New York from 1978 to 1979. Mr. Badillo was a candidate for comptroller on the Giuliani fusion ticket in 1993 and served as fiscal monitor of New York City s public school system during the Giuliani administration. He was chairman of the City University of New York s board of trustees from 1999 to 2001. He was interviewed on May 16, 2005, at his law offices in New York City.
Lilliam Barrios-Paoli came to the Giuliani administration following her service in the administration of Mayor Edward I. Koch. Under Mayor Giuliani, Ms. Barrios-Paoli served as commissioner/city personnel director of the New York City Department of Personnel from 1994 to 1996; as commissioner in the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development from 1996 to 1997; as commissioner/administrator of the Human Resources Administration from 1997 to 1998; and as executive director of Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a division of the New York City Health and Hospital Corporation, in 1998. After leaving city government, Ms. Barrios-Paoli served as senior vice president and chief executive for Agency Services of the United Way of New York City. In October 2004, she became the president and CEO of Safe Space, a not-for-profit organization serving needy families in New York City. She was interviewed on June 23, 2005, at the offices of Safe Space in New York City.
Carol Bellamy, a classma