The Prophet of Love
Subtitle: And Other Tales of Power and Deceit
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: May 14, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781582344638
Subjects: New York (N.Y.); United States Local History; Politics and government; Government - State & Provincial; U.S. State Government; Power (Social sciences); Political Science; Biography / Autobiography; Politics/International Relations; New York (State); New York; General; Political Science / General; Biography; Social conditions; 1951-; Anecdotes; Deception
First sentence: IN ALBANY, JANUARY is the season for speechifying.
Description: "As a reporter for The New York Times and then The New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert has had unparalleled access to the inner workings of the country's most complex and fascinating city. In the profiles assembled here, she talks to politicians and policemen, bureaucrats and radicals, celebrities and demagogues. She follows some on their heady ascent and others as they fall from grace, all the while questioning how power is attained, and then, just as often, squandered."--BOOK JACKET.