Eliot Spitzer: Spoiling for a fight

Posted by Daniel Stout on Mon 4 Sep 2006 at 7:17 AM

Great review over on nth position of Brooke A. Masters’ new book entitled Spoiling for a fight: The rise of Eliot Spitzer. Eliot Spitzer, as attorney general for New York, has made a name for himself fighting the power. The book itself looks like a fascinating look into the career of Spitzer thus far. It’s at Amazon here. [via 3QD]

From the review:

Spitzer, transforming what attorney generals do, attacked midwestern power plants for polluting New York, ripped into the Food Emporium and A&P, Gristedes and other major supermarkets and drugstore chains, for mindboggling working conditions of immigrant deliverymen, and convicted the first felonious sweatshop operator in a decade. His unsuccessful attempt to bring gun manufacturers under control proved him a man of initiative, practical, yet moral, quick to learn early the golden lesson of watching one’s back even when dealing with one’s apparent ally, a lesson he may have occasion to recall when governor. As for righteous anger, when the Red Cross attempted to divert 9/11 funds to its other causes, Spitzer seized it, as it were, by the neck, compelling it to use every cent for 9/11 victims.

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