A no-holds-barred biography of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Andrew Cuomo is the protagonist of an ongoing political saga that reads
like a novel. In many ways, his rise, fall, and rise again is an iconic
story: a young American politician of vaunting ambition, aiming for
nothing less than the presidency. Building on his father's political
success, a first run for governor in 2002 led to a stinging defeat, and
a painful, public divorce from Kerry Kennedy, scion of another political
dynasty, Cuomo had to come back from seeming political death and
reinvent himself.
He did so, brilliantly, by becoming New York's attorney general, and
compiling a record that focused on public corruption. In winning the
governorship in 2010, he promised to clean up America's most corrupt
legislature. He is blunt and combative, the antithesis of the
glad-handing, blow-dried senator or governor who tries to please one and
all. He's also proven he can make his legislature work, alternately
charming and arm-twisting his colleagues with a talent for political
strategy reminiscent of President Lyndon Johnson. Political pundits tend
to agree that for Cuomo, a run for the White House is not a question of
whether, but when.
