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A portrait of one of America's most controversial politicians describes the rise to power of New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, his election to the New York statehouse, and his ardent exposure of wrongdoing on the part of stock analysts, mutual fund managers, insurance brokers, and corporations in order to protect ordinary consumers and middle-class Americans. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
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"Compelling, suspenseful, and deeply reported . . . Masters gives a dramatic inside account of the fight between Spitzer and the titans of finance."—NewsdayFew politicians have burst onto the American scene with as much impact as Eliot Spitzer. As New York's attorney general, he exposed wrongdoing by stock analysts, mutual fund managers, and insurance brokers, and investigated corporations that have misled or defrauded ordinary investors and consumers. And as the next governor of New York, Spitzer is now a rising star on the national political scene.No reporter has had better or more complete behind-the-scenes access to Spitzer than Brooke A. Masters, who covered him for four years at The Washington Post. Spoiling for a Fight is her dramatic and revealing portrait of the politician who has brought down some of the biggest names in American finance and has set his sights on higher office. And in a new afterword, she chronicles his ascension to New York's highest office and assesses his future political prospects.
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