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The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
Portfolio
April 2010
On Sale: April 15, 2010
320 pages ISBN: 1591843073 EAN: 9781591843078 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
An in-depth look at the ambitious career and sudden
disgrace of the former New York governor 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.
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