Summary of Andrew Kirtzman's Giuliani

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#1 Rudy Giuliani, who would become the mayor of New York, was obsessed with John F. Kennedy during high school, and as an adult, he romanticized his upbringing as something close to perfect.

#2 Rudy Giuliani, who would become the mayor of New York, was obsessed with John F. Kennedy during high school, and as an adult, he romanticized his upbringing as something close to perfect.

#3 Giuliani’s father was a milkman who was arrested for robbing people, and his psychiatrist report characterized his aggression as pathological.

#4 Rudy Giuliani, who would become the mayor of New York, was obsessed with John F. Kennedy during high school, and as an adult, he romanticized his upbringing as something close to perfect.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350029611

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Insights on Andrew Kirtzman's Giuliani

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

In 1960, presidential candidate John F. Kennedy had a ticker-tape parade down Manhattan's Canyon of Heroes to celebrate his victory. Rudy Giuliani, a classmate in Giuliani's homeroom, went to see Kennedy in person.

#2

As a young boy, Giuliani was already serious about his studies, and he thrived at Loughlin Catholic School, a Brooklyn institution that emphasized authority and morality. He took great pride in his family’s police officers and firefighters.

#3

Even though Giuliani was raised by police officers and criminals, he still viewed himself as a moral person. His belief in the infallibility of his views rendered him impervious to criticism and self-doubt, which would be his greatest asset and eventual undoing.

#4

While Rudy portrays his father as a loving and caring man, his father was actually a violent and self-centered man who spent much of his time behind bars. He also had a difficult relationship with his mother.

#5

When Rudy was seven, his father took him and his sister out of the dangerous world of loan sharks and into a safer one with the Garden City South suburbs of Long Island. He served as campaign manager for someone who lost in the election, but still received a scholarship to Bishop Loughlin.

#6

In his senior year, Giuliani was extremely self-confident. He accompanied his class on a trip to Washington, D. C. , and they plunged into an epic water fight. They started pouring water under bedroom doors. The police let them off without filing charges, but the trauma of the arrest took its toll on Harold. He suffered a nervous breakdown.

#7

Giuliani was a very strict student, and he often stood out because of it. He was rejected by the leading fraternity on campus, and some students began to chafe at the college's strict dress code.

#8

When Giuliani and his sidekick, Peter Powers, entered NYU Law School in 1965, they were completely square. They didn’t even consider experimenting with marijuana. But they were not immune to the boozy allure of the bars and clubs that lined Bleecker Street.

#9

In 1968, Giuliani graduated from NYU Law School, and