From Michael Wolff, author of the explosive, number one best seller Fire and Fury , comes the mesmerizing story behind the most bizarre melt-down in recent American political history. The decline and fall of Rudy Giuliani, from "America's Mayor" to public spectacle, has all the makings of a modern Shakespearean tragedy. Those who know Giuliani, whose tough leadership and even tougher politics helped revitalize New York City in the 1990s and lead the country through 9/11, have stood by and watched with incredulity as he ...
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From Michael Wolff, author of the explosive, number one best seller Fire and Fury , comes the mesmerizing story behind the most bizarre melt-down in recent American political history. The decline and fall of Rudy Giuliani, from "America's Mayor" to public spectacle, has all the makings of a modern Shakespearean tragedy. Those who know Giuliani, whose tough leadership and even tougher politics helped revitalize New York City in the 1990s and lead the country through 9/11, have stood by and watched with incredulity as he put himself at the heart of impeachment charges against the President. In The Tragedy of Rudy Giuliani , Michael Wolff uncovers just what happened to the iconoclastic former mayor, and reveals how his apparent self-destruction frames some of the great political questions of the age: How have evidently unstable people come to have such success in institutional politics? How have the mean and nasty achieved such heights in a system that has valued - insisted on - likeability and conventionality?
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