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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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Siegel, Frederick F.
Geboortedatum
1945
Overlijdensdatum
2023-05-07
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Even non-New Yorkers are aware of Mayor Giuliani's leadership following the attack of 9/11. But this book details much more of Giuliani's years as Mayor of N.Y. Siegel portrays the Mayor as a tireless and shrewd tactician and a visionary leader. The book shows how NY was turned around during the Giuliani years, seeing improvements in crime reduction, private housing ownership increases, welfare reduction, quality of life improvements, economy, budget, education, etc., all accomplished while being able to reduce taxes. People who see educational improvement and poverty reduction as being proportional to spending may not like what they read here, since Giuliani was able to forge improvements by introducing work-fare vs. welfare and fighting for educational program improvements by cutting waste. Many interesting stories and details, and you have to look favorably upon the Giulaini approach to governance when compared to Mayor Lindsey, Mayor Dinkins, etc.

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.
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rsutto22 | Jul 15, 2021 |
Casts a dubious eye on the socialist policies and corruption in America's largest cities in the second half of the 20th century
 
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zhoster | 1 andere bespreking | Mar 1, 2014 |
A modern version of the classic. It has some basic, but practical advice: save 10%, put your money to work in things your passionate about, create and stick to a budget, don’t invest in things that are “too good to be true.” One quote that struck me in particular was in the invest in yourself. Quoting from Mark Twain “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”
 
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