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Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-JAN-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer.(Book review)

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Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer Brooke A. Masters Times Books www.henryholt.com 353 pp., $26

Savvy media manipulator Eliot Spitzer has appeared so regularly in the news in recent years that Brooke Masters, a New York-based staff writer for the Washington Post who covers financial services and white-collar crime, realized a journalist's take on him could be a book--long before Spitzer was elected governor of New York last November.

Spoiling for a Fight covers Spitzer's life and career, but it's not a biography. While Masters says that Spitzer was "candid and accessible" and encouraged his family and friends to be open and helpful, her book whips through his wealthy background, schooling, marriage, and children in one chapter ("A Man in a Hurry") to get to her real task of documenting his life in the New York attorney general's office.

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