Rough Justice
By
Peter Elkind
Read by
Arthur Morey
Release:
05/17/2010
Release:
05/17/2010
Release:
05/17/2010
Release:
05/17/2010
Runtime:
12h 44m
Runtime:
12h 44m
Runtime:
12h 44m
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“The Eliot Spitzer story plays like a novel that might have been plotted by Theodore Dreiser and peopled with characters by Tom Wolfe…The tireless reformer compared to Batman’s alter ego, Bruce Wayne…finds his much ballyhooed future as a possible presidential contender smashed to pieces, and the word ‘disgraced’ seemingly permanently stapled to his name like a Homeric epithet.”
New York Times
With a combination of talent, hard work, connections, and family wealth, Eliot Spitzer built an amazing career. By his late forties, he'd gone from Princeton to Harvard Law to dramatic success as a prosecutor and attorney general to the governorship of New York. Many thought he would become the first Jewish president of the United States. Then came the prostitution scandal that shocked and mystified the nation.
Peter Elkind's definitive account gets at all sides of this complex man: the well-intentioned do-gooder, the aggressive lawyer, the hardball politician, the dutiful son, the loving husband and father, and the secretive "Client 9" of the Emperor's Club escort service.
Elkind interviewed dozens of key sources, ranging from Spitzer's family, friends, and closest aides, to targets of his high-profile investigations, to central players in the prostitution ring. He reveals many groundbreaking new details about Spitzer's rise, his short time as governor, and the way his enemies plotted against him.
The result is a gripping, almost Shakespearean narrative—a tragedy of one man's noble intentions and fatal flaws and the powerful forces (both internal and external) that destroyed him.
Peter Elkind's definitive account gets at all sides of this complex man: the well-intentioned do-gooder, the aggressive lawyer, the hardball politician, the dutiful son, the loving husband and father, and the secretive "Client 9" of the Emperor's Club escort service.
Elkind interviewed dozens of key sources, ranging from Spitzer's family, friends, and closest aides, to targets of his high-profile investigations, to central players in the prostitution ring. He reveals many groundbreaking new details about Spitzer's rise, his short time as governor, and the way his enemies plotted against him.
The result is a gripping, almost Shakespearean narrative—a tragedy of one man's noble intentions and fatal flaws and the powerful forces (both internal and external) that destroyed him.
Release:
2010-05-17
2010-05-17
2010-05-17
2010-05-17
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
12h 44m
12h 44m
12h 44m
12h 44m
Format:
audio
audio
audio
audio
Weight:
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0.95 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781400187355
9798200107629
9798200107636
9781400117352
Publisher:
Tantor
Tantor
Tantor
Tantor
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