Fred Siegel (1945–2023)
Auteur van The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life
Over de Auteur
Fred Siegel is the author, most recently, of The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life (2005), which received the cover review in the New York Times Book Review. His previous book, The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of Americas Big toon meer Cities, was named by Peter Jennings as one of the 100 most important books about the U.S. in the twentieth century. He has written widely on American and European politics and was described as the historian of the American city in a November 2011 profile in the Wall Street Journal. The former editor of City Journal, he has written for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, The Atlantic, Commentary, The New Republic, Dissent, and many other publications. He has also appeared widely on TV and radio. A former senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., Mr. Siegel is currently a scholar in residence at St. Francis College in Brooklyn and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. toon minder
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Werken van Fred Siegel
The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America's Big Cities (1997) — Auteur — 59 exemplaren
The Roots of Southern Distinctiveness: Tobacco and Society in Danville, Virginia, 1780-1865 (1987) 13 exemplaren
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- Siegel, Frederick F.
- Geboortedatum
- 1945
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2023-05-07
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- 13
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- 265
- Populariteit
- #86,991
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- 3.6
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- 4
- ISBNs
- 34
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- 1
While generally very supportive of Giuliani, his self-promoting and self-absorbed side, and his enormous ego do come out in the book. There's not much here to convince you that being a good mayor make him a good Presidential candidate, and the 2008 presidential primary results reflected, but it's a good description of leadership can impact how cities thrive or die.… (meer)