Thanks to Eliot Spitzer's highly publicized attacks on fraud in the financial services industry, he's arguably the most famous New York-based prosecutor since Thomas Dewey. And he's the overwhelming favorite to win the Democratic nomination for New York governor. Attorney Michael Stern reviews a new Spitzer biography, "Spoiling for a Fight," by Brooke A. Masters, noting "there's a dark side to Eliot Spitzer the crusading Good Kid, of course, and Masters is scrupulous in painting that portrait as well."
October 09, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
“Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer”
By Brooke A. Masters
(New York: Henry Holt; 368 pages; $26)
“Nice kid. He’s gonna get killed,” Daniel Patrick Moynihan, New York’s senior U.S. senator, growled backstage after grudgingly endorsing Eliot Spitzer’s 1998 candidacy for attorney general of New York. Moynihan, a fabled handicapper, was wrong: Spitzer won — albeit barely, by 25,186 votes out of 4.3 million cast, and only after a recount.
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