Rudy!: An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani

by Wayne Barrett, Adam Fifield (Assistant)

First Edition. Stated. Tear, some creasing to DJ. Pages are crisp, clean. Binding is tight.

Genres: Nonfiction, New York, Biography

512 pages, Hardcover

First published July 25, 2000

About the author

Wayne Barrett was an American journalist. He worked as an investigative reporter and senior editor for The Village Voice for 37 years, and was known as a leading investigative journalist focused on power and politics in the United States. He is known as New York City's "foremost muckraker."
“Our credo must be the exposure of the plunderers, the steerers, the wirepullers, the bosses, the brokers, the campaign givers and takers,” Barrett once said to journalism students at his alma mater, Columbia University. “So I say: Stew, percolate, pester, track, burrow, besiege, confront, damage, level, care.”

Reviews

[Kathe Murnyack]

Very hard read. Full of statistics, very repetitive not worth the bother.

[Quentyn Daniels]

I read this book months before 9-11 because I wanted to get an idea of the man that turned around NYC from the hellhole that it was. Yeah, I learned that he's a guy that you probably wouldn't want to work for, but not many can dispute what he's done.

[Joe Marsh]

Big fan of the former mayor of New York, interesting novel detailing his life

[Rey]

the possibilities are endless, i could be mayor? perhaps