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Book Jacket MIKE BLOOMBERG
Money, Power, Politics
JOYCE PURNICK
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The first biography of business mastermind and übermayor Michael Bloomberg, written by an award-winning veteran New York Times reporter

Michael Bloomberg is not only New York City's 108th mayor; he is a business genius and self-made billionaire. He has run the toughest city in America with an independence and show of ego that first brought him great success—and eventually threatened it. Yet while Bloomberg is internationally known and admired, few people know the man behind the carefully crafted public persona.

In Mike Bloomberg, Joyce Purnick explores Mr. Bloomberg's life from his childhood in the suburbs of Boston, to his rise on Wall Street and the creation of Bloomberg L.P., to his mayoral record and controversial gamble on a third term. Drawing on her deep knowledge of New York City politics, and interviews with Bloomberg's friends, family, colleagues, and the mayor himself, she creates a textured portrait of one of the more complex men of our era. The first biography of business mastermind and

Joyce Purnick, a veteran New York reporter and editor, wrote the award-winning "Metro Matters" column at the New York Times for ten years. She joined the paper in 1979 after writing at the New York Post and New York magazine, becoming the first woman to head its City Hall bureau and entire Metro department. She has, so far, covered six mayors of New York. Ms. Purnick, a Barnard College graduate, lives in Manhattan.

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HARDCOVER
ISBN 978-1-58648-577-1
Pub date: 09/22/09
Price: $26.95/33.95 Canada
6 1/8 x 9 1/4
272 pages
8 pp. b/w photos
Carton Quantity: 24
Biography, Business
Selling Territory: W
Rights: First Serial, British Commonwealth, Translation, Audio & Electronic Rights: PublicAffairs
Performance Rights: Gelfman Schneider Literary Agency

PAPERBACK
ISBN 978-1586488994
Pub date: 09/28/10
Price: $14.95/18.95 Canada
6 1/8 x 9 1/4
272 pages
8 pp b/w photos
Biography, Business
Selling Territory: W
Pub history: 978-1586485771

E-BOOK
ISBN 978-0-78674-621-7
Pub date: 09/29/09
Price: $26.95/33.95 Canada

304 pages

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