"Giuliani was hailed after 9/11 as 'America's Mayor,' a singular figure who at the time was more widely admired than the pope. He was brilliant, accomplished--and complicated. He conflated politics with morality and caused his own downfall with a series of disastrous decisions and cynical compromises. ... Kirtzman, who was with Giuliani at the World Trade Center on 9/11, conducted hundreds of interviews to write this ... portrait of this polarizing figure, from the beginning of his rise to his ruinous role as Donald Trump's personal lawyer"--Dust jacket flap.
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