Mike Bloomberg: Money, Power, Politics

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PublicAffairs, Sep 22, 2009 - Biography & Autobiography - 272 pages
A biography of the business mogul, former New York City mayor, and 2020 democratic presidential candidate

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 biography, former New York Times columnist and editor Joyce Purnick unravels this great American enigma from his childhood in the suburbs of Boston, to his rise on Wall Street and the creation of Bloomberg L.P., to his mayoral record and controversial campaign trail for a third term.
 

Contents

FIVE Crashing the Alist
55
SIX Enter the High Roller
73
Tragedy Trumps Politics
91
EIGHT Money Money on the Wall
105
NINE Managing City Hall
121
Olympian Dreams
137
TWELVE
163
THIRTEEN
175
FIFTEEN Footprints
203
SIXTEEN
219
Acknowledgments
229
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Joyce Purnick, a veteran New York reporter and editor, wrote the award-winning Metro Matters column at the New York Times for ten years. She joined the paper in 1979, after writing at the New York Post and New York magazine, becoming the first woman to head the Times's City Hall bureau and its Metro department. She has, so far, covered six mayors of New York. Ms. Purnick, a Barnard College graduate, lives in Manhattan with her husband and is the admiring stepmother of three and grandmother of six.

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