The Contender: Andrew Cuomo, a Biography, by Michael Shnayerson
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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.
The Contender: Andrew Cuomo, a Biography, by Michael Shnayerson- Amazon Sales Rank: #734905 in Books
- Brand: Shnayerson, Michael
- Published on: 2015-03-31
- Released on: 2015-03-31
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.25" h x 1.75" w x 6.25" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 544 pages
Review A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Political Book of the Season"[A] deeply researched account...While Shnayerson doesn't deny the governor his considerable talents and accomplishments - from his efforts as a young man tackling homelessness to his key role in the 2011 passage of same-sex marriage - the story is shadowed by what the author portrays as an often ruthless drive for advancement, and a mania for control."―Albany Times-Union"In the first few pages of "The Contender," Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is portrayed as a "brilliant tactician" and a presidential hopeful, even if not in 2016. But the tone of the unauthorized biography quickly changes...the book explores Mr. Cuomo's complicated relationship with his father, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, as well as his early days managing his father's campaigns, and then running his office in Albany after his father became governor..."―The New York Times"Gov. Andrew Cuomo is known for going to great lengths to control his image and the information released about him. Interviews with people familiar with the governor's deliberations and others who worked on the three projects shed light on a literary chess game that played out over three years."―The Wall Street Journal"Shnayerson is able to add color to the existing body of Cuomo portraiture...about how the governor (and governor's son) got to be the political figure he is today. Cuomo, in Shnayerson's telling, was the young campaign operative who shimmied up telephone poles in Queens in the dead of night to take down his father Mario's opponent's campaign posters, and would do just about anything if it meant winning."―Capitol New York"A graceful writer with a gift for memorable descriptions...a dogged, resourceful reporter...with THE CONTENDER, Shnayerson provides a helpful [...] reminder that some of the best and most consequential political stories occur far away from the glare of Washington."―The New York Times Book Review
About the Author Michael Shnayerson became a contributing editor at Vanity Fair in 1986 and has since written more than 75 stories for the magazine, most recently reporting on the environmental hazards in the U.S., and investigating the likelihood of hacking into voting machines. He began his career in 1976 as a reporter at the Santa Fe Reporter and moved to Time as a staff writer in 1978. In 1980 he became editor in chief of Avenue. He has been a consulting editor at Condé Nast Traveler since its inception in 1987. Shnayerson is the author of Irwin Shaw: A Biography (Putnam, 1989) and The Car That Could: The Inside Story of GM's Revolutionary Electric Vehicle (Random House, 1996), which was named one of the best business books of 1996 by BusinessWeek; and he is the co-author, with Mark J. Plotkin, of The Killers Within: The Deadly Rise of Drug-Resistant Bacteria (Little, Brown, 2002) and co-author of Harry Belafonte's memoir My Song (Knopf, 2011).
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful. Here's THE book Andrew Cuomo does NOT want you to read. It's the REAL story about Andy? You're going to be shocked! (I promise.) By Christopher S. Zaleski Before I start my review, let me take a stab at addressing some Amazon reviewers who have trashed “The Contender” - I'm pretty sure many of these folks didn't read the book but instead took out their visceral disdain for Andrew Cuomo by attacking anything that has his face on it. That said, it is not an honest depiction of the quality or content of this enjoyable and tantalizing read.Now on to my review. I'm going to let you in on a little secret regarding the “The Contender” - this is the book Cuomo doesn't want you to read. It is tough - even brutal at times. While Andrew Cuomo's book "All Things Possible" was more of a self promoting, sanitized propaganda piece of a man who though he was presidential material, this hard hitting unauthorized biography provides all the juicy details that Andrew Cuomo found too embarrassing to include - details an honest book should provide. This is anything but a self-serving memoir. There are lots and lots of revealing stories in “The Contender”; one of my favorites is Andrew sitting with Republicans to work out the unSAFE Act. The Republicans try to explain that limiting hunting rifles to seven bullets makes no sense because the magazines are built to carry ten. Parallel Universe Cuomo's response? “So they can put seven in. You can't make this stuff up! It's like buying milk but the gallon containers are only 70% full! Yep, approximately 90 ounces rather than the 128 ounces that make up a U.S. Gallon... and astonishingly,” Andrew Cuomo simply didn't get it. Cuomo went on to say, “Yeah but the clip holds ten. And hunters carry boxes of ammo so they could look illegal if they’re carrying ten-bullet clips.” Nope: seven it has to be, since that gives Andrew bragging rights to having the toughest gun law in the country. It's kinda funny too that Cuomo forgot to make any exceptions for law enforcement so for a time, until they correct that portion of the law - every police officer in New York State was a guilty of a felony worse than molesting children. There are even better stories about Cuomo's daddy issues, his dysfunctional relationship to his first wife (Kerry Kennedy-Cuomo) and other crazy and surreal stories that you couldn't begin to imagine. Thankfully, Michael Shnayerson has done the heavy lifting for us and I am glad he did! Take a closer look, guys. “The Contender” is the real thing.
36 of 41 people found the following review helpful. Required reading for NY'ers By Nancy Currier I have been on this earth long enough to be jaded and cynical when it comes to politics. I believe the price one has to pay to be successful in politics is usually a piece of one's soul. Having read Shnayerson's biography of Andrew Cuomo I have amended that theory. In spite of the author's very careful and deliberate inclusion of accomplishments made by Cuomo during his tenure at HUD and as NYS Attorney General, it is clear that this is a man who has sold his entire soul and the souls of everyone near him in his obsessive and megalomaniacal quest for control and power. If he spent even 3 seconds in self reflection and decided he should deal with his daddy issues those alone would keep him on a psychiatrist's couch for decades. Andy carries a massive chip on his shoulder at all times and uses it to beat any opponent,either real or a figment of his paranoid imagination, into submission. And he makes the sexual exploits of Elliot Spitzer look like those of a blushing virgin. Elliot only screwed a few prostitutes. Andy has screwed everyone in New York.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful. Extremely thoughtful, potent analysis By Miranda Dalton This is an extremely thoughtful and potent analysis of Andrew Cuomo's life so far. In the early chapters, you feel the forces of darkness and light alternating to create the legacy of the Cuomo dynasty, and you get a sense of what Andrew Cuomo's potential was at its prime, as the son and closest confidant of a silver-tongued governor and contender for higher office. But then the good Andrew and the bad Andrew begin to flicker and coexist, and as is often the case, his potential begins to diminish as his ambition and flaws come into high relief. Well worth the time and money to read, if you are interested in contemporary politics, and no matter your party affiliation.
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