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How I Prosecuted Mobsters, Rebuilt a Dying City, Dined with Sinatra, Spent Five Years in a Federally Funded Gated Community, and Lived to Tell the Tale
Macmillan
March 2011
On Sale: March 15, 2011
368 pages
ISBN: 0312592809
EAN: 9780312592806
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Non-Fiction Memoir
An election is a war and "to the victor belongs the
spoils." As I learned so well, that's there real democratic
process. After all, you'll never see a victorious
politician tell his supporters, "I want to thank all of you
who worked so hard for my election. However, in the
interest of good government, I've decided to give all the
jobs to those people who voted against me." My name is
Buddy Cianci. I spent almost three decades as mayor of
Providence...before leaving for an enforced vacation in a
federally funded gated community. When I first
took office, Providence was a dying industrial city, and I
helped turn it into one of the most desirable places to
live in America. I did it by playing the game of hardball
politics as well as it has ever been played. My favorite
Frank Sinatra lyric is "I did it my way," because that's the
only way a mayor can run a city. As I used to tell my
staff, "When you spend your weekends kissing elderly women
with mustaches, you can make the decisions." If
you want to know the truth about how politics is played, you
picked the right book. This is the behind-the-locked-door
story of how politics in America really works. It's
take me a lifetime of successes and failures to write it.
It's all in these pages. I have been called many things in
my career: I've been "America's Most Innovative Mayor," a
"colorful character," and a convicted felon. But no one has
ever called me shy.
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