The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life

In the dark days after the 9-11 terrorist attacks, Rudy Giuliani established himself as “America’s Mayor”. In this first post-9-11 account of his career, Fred Siegel shows how Rudy Giuliani’s successes in New York set a promising example for the rejuvenation of our major cities.

As one who has worked with him as well as studied him, Siegel regards Giuliani as a shrewd tactician and artist of the possible, who could have stepped out of the pages of Machiavelli’s The Prince. A self…