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Article: The right man, if ...(The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life)(Book Review)
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- July 4, 2005
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The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life, by Fred Siegel (Encounter, 408 pp., $26.95)
THERE are two ways to enjoy this important and timely book. Everyone in New York who writes about politics knows Fred Siegel, professor of history at Cooper Union and senior fellow of the Progressive Policy Institute. He is an intellectual and a raconteur. He collects bright details like a magpie, and he remembers damning facts with the stern impartiality of Rhadamanthus, judge of the underworld. He has seen the clowns tumble, and he knows where the bodies are buried. The Prince of the City can be read as Plutarch's Lives of the Ignoble New ...