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CITY POWER / Don't Expect Dirt in Giuliani's Book

Andrew Kirtzman. Andrew Kirtzman, host of "Inside City Hall" on New York 1 News, is author of "Rudy Giuliani: Emperor of the City."

2001

Overview

Back then, [Rudy Giuliani] was Super Mayor, the reformer who'd outsmarted labor leaders, politicians, newspaper editors, racial activists-all the warring barons of this maddening town who had chewed up David Dinkins and spit him out. Giuliani was disciplined, organized and ruthless. His aides, bland attorneys in dark navy suits, followed orders, marched in lock-step and never leaked. You may have disliked his methods, winced at his rhetoric, but it was awesome to watch one man tame the ungovernable city. As his last year in office draws to a close, a lot of gratitude and even nostalgia for Giuliani will begin to emerge, and maybe [Tina Brown] is once again ahead of the curve on another trend. But the Giuliani who signed that seven-figure deal with her last week is a far smaller figure than the one she described so breathlessly. The invincible leader who traveled to Iowa in 1998 to test out a presidential run is the same man who, three years later, slipped almost unnoticed into the Republican Convention in Philadelphia with his girlfriend, an oddity in his own party. As he made the rounds of the New York delegation, shaking hands and patting some backs, many just snickered about the judgment-and stability-of a man who'd flaunted an extramarital affair in the middle of a nationally watched election.

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• Subject: Brown, Tina / Giuliani, Rudolph W