Word: spitzers
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Masters makes the most of her exclusive access, detailing the battles that Spitzer has fought over the past seven years, which range from crackdowns on pollution and gun violence to suits against banks and mutual funds companies...
...starts with the conflicts of interest at major investment banks, who would rate company’s stocks favorably in order to win their investment banking business. Carefully reconstructing how Spitzer and his team discovered the crimes that would make them famous, Masters relates each case in superb detail and with a novelist's pacing and development. Her narrative approach allows the reader to be constantly caught up in the suspense as Spitzer and his team break open case after case...
Masters does, however, provide a variety of angles to assist them, first allowing Spitzer to define himself—he says his model is Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1876—and then letting others have a try. Former Goldman Sachs chief John C. Whitehead ’68 calls Spitzer “scary,” for example, after allegedly being threatened...
From the facts that Masters lays out, it seems that Spitzer is most similar not to Teddy Roosevelt but to another New Yorker—Robert F. Kennedy ’48, the Empire State's one-time senator. A crusader who took on some of the toughest fights of his day—against mobbed-up unions, for example, and in favor of the civil rights movement—Kennedy, like Spitzer, was seen by critics as ruthless and arrogant. Supporters, on the other hand, saw a fundamentally decent man with the spine to effect change...
...Kennedy, unlike on Spitzer, we have an answer as to who the man really was. In his definitive biography of Kennedy, renowned historian and Kennedy family consiglieri Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. ’38 leveraged his wealth of personal knowledge to convince readers that the second version of the story was far more accurate. He was tremendously biased, of course, but readers still benefited greatly from his reflections on what made Kennedy tick...