Mike Bloomberg: Money, Power, Politics
Mike Bloomberg has repeatedly defied the standard models for success. He has never won a crowd over with his speaking prowess. Rooms do not hush with anticipation when he enters. Celebrity stalkers do not haunt him. But his unparalleled achievements drip with the dynamism that his public persona lacks. His penchant for problem solving and impressive ability to chart his own path has led to his great success as a business genius, self-made billionaire, and influential mayor. In this brilliant...
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The first biography of business mastermind and übermayor Michael Bloomberg, written by an award-winning veteran New York Times reporter The New York Times - George Anders Purnick's reporting…is detailed and delightful.
1 Never Enough 12 Escape from Medford 73 First Millions 254 Terminal Man 395 Crashing the A-list 556 Enter the High Roller 737 Tragedy Trumps Politics 918 Money, Money on the Wall 1059 Managing City Hall 12110 Olympian Dreams 13711 Yes for Mayor, Not for Dinner 15312 See Mike Not Run 16313 Finding Act III 17514 Money Money from City Hall 19115 Footprints 20316 Many a Difference 219Acknowledgments 229A Note about Attribution 233Index 235
\ George AndersPurnick's reporting…is detailed and delightful.\ —The New York Times\ \ \ \ \ Kirkus ReviewsGenerally admiring biography of the New York politician whom many have criticized but few have outflanked. Former New York Times columnist Purnick has been on the mayoral beat for years. Her study of Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire mayor, takes a heavy human-interest approach, more befitting a magazine piece than the front page. We learn that Bloomberg, in the manner of Elvis, is fond of peanut butter and burnt bacon, and that his style of managing "takes self-control, coolness, a refusal to indulge emotions or denounce the obstacles, and no vindictiveness or grudge-holding." Those are good traits for a politico to have, to be sure-even one who spent $100, by Purnick's reckoning, for every vote he won in the second-term 2005 race, and who revels in "racist, sexist and homophobic jokes" that would normally put an end to a political career backed by shallower pockets. The author does a solid job contrasting Bloomberg's style with predecessor Rudy Giuliani's. "Avuncular he is not," Purnick avers, but Bloomberg gets things done, including carefully lobbying for a suspension of the term-limits rule to bag himself a third tour of the mayor's office. The author's careful account of that victory-a worthy case study for anyone seeking ways to game a system designed to protect voters from anti-democratic dynasties-is worth the price of the book. A touch too uncritical for readers brought up on hardnosed journalistic takes on politicians, but of interest to students of Gotham politics. Agent: Jane Gelfman/Gelfman Schneider Literary Agents\ \
