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Article: Prince Rudy's Courtier: a mugged liberal's love affair with a tough mayor.(The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life)(Book Review)
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- November 1, 2005
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The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life, by Fred Siegel, San Francisco: Encounter, 342 pages, $26.95
TO GRASP THE importance of Rudolph Giuliani's two-term administration as mayor of New York, you have to remember what a mess the city was under Giuliani's predecessor. Mayor David Dinkins led a city where garbage went uncollected for three years, where a still-unknown number of children died of cholera, where two in every three residences were destroyed by arson in any given year, where the average woman was sexually assaulted at least three times every day (the rate for men was slightly higher).
With an infant ...