The Prince

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“One of the sharpest state policy minds I know." —Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“A writer with real literary flair. Like I.F. Stone, Barkan works independently with a left point of view, but it's his shoe leather, his working the phones and hitting the street, that's invaluable because, sadly, it's so scarce.” —Christian Lorentzen

Governor Andrew Cuomo, scion of Mario Cuomo, is today as famous as his father, also a governor of New York state for three terms. Like Robert Moses, he is one of New York’s great and infamous power brokers. Though initially lavishly celebrated for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, not least by himself, it is now apparent that Cuomo’s management of the crisis was a juddering and fatal failure. Thousands died because, ignoring the advice of experts, he shut down too late and returned still sick patients to nursing homes. The crisis was intensified by his previous commitment to austerity, which saw the slashing of funding to hospitals.

A vital riposte to Cuomo’s recently published book about the pandemic, now increasingly derided as self-serving and deceitful, The Prince is a searing indictment of Cuomo’s handling of coronavirus and his time overall in the highest office of the state.

Language: English

Pages: 200

Format: Paperback

Publisher: OR Books

Release: May 05, 2022

ISBN 13: 9781682194102

The Prince

Ross Barkan

4.1/5 ( ratings)

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Language: English

Pages: 200

Format: Paperback

Publisher: OR Books

Release: May 05, 2022

ISBN 13: 9781682194102

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Sir Farty Fartsalot

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Apr 29, 2024

It's just a poorly written 200 page hitjob written by a progressive windbag, hence its endorsement from AOC; the socialist, grandstanding looney tune that everyone outside of the Rose Twitter army can't stand. Don't bother with this filth.
Peter Feld

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Apr 29, 2024

A terrifying but gripping indictment of Andrew Cuomo's failed and corrupt response to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York state.
Brian Tannenbaum

(4/5)

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Apr 29, 2024

Very good retrospective of how the governor failed New York in its most desperate hour. There's just a little bit of editorial sloppiness including an entry in the footnotes that just reads as "Insert Text." Overall Ross is a good writer and an excellent reporter.
Joseph Niver

(5/5)

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Apr 29, 2024

Important read for any New Yorker who was a "Cuomosexual" during the pandemic. Barkan lays out how the vindictive, entitled bully who occupied the governor's mansion for a decade made New York so vulnerable to a pandemic, and how his dithering response, contrary of his media personality, cost tens of thousands of lives.
Abdul

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Apr 29, 2024

Nice book but has some repetitions. Plenty of new things though.
Jesse Meyerson

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Apr 29, 2024

A must-read for anyone curious about New York State workings and the governor's (or *this* governor's) grip on its every machination. Essential counterbalance to the local and national media's hagiography of Cuomo, as he echoed the worst responses to lambasted GOP executives like Texas's Patrick, but was instead praised despite actually putting the economy before citizens' lives not merely talking about it. Barkan offers detailed wheres, whys, and hows that expressly put the city's and state's o...
Regina Mascia

(4/5)

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Apr 29, 2024

After reading this book........Cuomo and deBlasio being so incompetent.....thousands of lives could have been saved.

Sir Farty Fartsalot

(1/5)

Apr 29, 2024

It's just a poorly written 200 page hitjob written by a progressive windbag, hence its endorsement from AOC; the socialist, grandstanding looney tune that everyone outside of the Rose Twitter army can't stand. Don't bother with this filth.

Peter Feld

(5/5)

A terrifying but gripping indictment of Andrew Cuomo's failed and corrupt response to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York state.

Brian Tannenbaum

(4/5)

Very good retrospective of how the governor failed New York in its most desperate hour. There's just a little bit of editorial sloppiness including an entry in the footnotes that just reads as "Insert Text." Overall Ross is a good writer and an excellent reporter.

Joseph Niver

Important read for any New Yorker who was a "Cuomosexual" during the pandemic. Barkan lays out how the vindictive, entitled bully who occupied the governor's mansion for a decade made New York so vulnerable to a pandemic, and how his dithering response, contrary of his media personality, cost tens of thousands of lives.

Abdul

Nice book but has some repetitions. Plenty of new things though.

Jesse Meyerson

A must-read for anyone curious about New York State workings and the governor's (or *this* governor's) grip on its every machination. Essential counterbalance to the local and national media's hagiography of Cuomo, as he echoed the worst responses to lambasted GOP executives like Texas's Patrick, but was instead praised despite actually putting the economy before citizens' lives not merely talking about it. Barkan offers detailed wheres, whys, and hows that expressly put the city's and state's o...

Regina Mascia

After reading this book........Cuomo and deBlasio being so incompetent.....thousands of lives could have been saved.

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