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The Man Who Saved New York offers a portrait of one of New York's most remarkable governors, Hugh L. Carey, with emphasis on his leadership during the fiscal crisis of 1975. In this dramatic and colorful account, Seymour P. Lachman and Robert Polner's examine Carey's youth, military service, and public career against the backdrop of a changing, challenged, and recession-battered city, state, and nation.

It was Carey's leadership, Lachman and Polner argue, that helped rescue the city and s…

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The Man Who Saved New York: Hugh Carey and the Great Fiscal Crisis of 1975

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