interviewing his long-time political associates and friends as well as other astute political observers, the authors chronicle the political and personal evolution of rudolph giuliani to create a balanced portrait. they take the reader from giuliani ` s difficult boyhood in brooklyn to his political awakening to his controversy-fraught tenure as public prosecutor to his eight years as the headline-grabbing mayor of the ungovernable city of new york to his latest career as a highly paid consultant on security to his political murmurings in regard to a presidential campaign in 2008.