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The Contender

Michael Shnayerson

A no-holds-barred biography of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Andrew Cuomo is the protagonist of an ongoing political saga that reads like a novel. In many ways his rise fall and rise again is an iconic story: a young American politician of vaunting ambition aiming for nothing less than the presidency. Building on his father's political success a first run for governor in 2002 led to a stinging defeat and a painful public divorce from Kerry Kennedy scion of another political dynasty Cuomo had to come back from seeming political death and reinvent himself.

He did so brilliantly by becoming New York's attorney general and compiling a record that focused on public corruption. In winning the governorship in 2010 he promised to clean up America's most corrupt legislature. He is blunt and combative the antithesis of the glad-handing blow-dried senator or governor who tries to please one and all. He's also proven he can make his legislature work alternately charming and arm-twisting his colleagues with a talent for political strategy reminiscent of President Lyndon Johnson. Political pundits tend to agree that for Cuomo a run for the White House is not a question of whether but when.>

  • Classification : Biography & Memoir
  • Pub Date : AUG 4, 2020
  • Imprint : Twelve
  • Page Extent : 544
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781538754269
  • Price : INR 1,365
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Michael Shnayerson

Michael Shnayerson is a longtime contributing editor to Vanity Fair and the author or co-author of five books. Most recently he collaborated with Harry Belafonte on the singer and activist's memoir My Song a New York Times notable book of 2011. His other books include Coal River about West Virginians fighting the environmental threat of mountaintop coal removal; and Irwin Shaw: A Biography.

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