#Giuliani figleaf tv#

It makes what he did publicly look even more craven, more cynical. The texts never came out at the time because there was so much going on, but for us it was another eureka moment, where Giuliani basically admits he’s got nothing. David Holley, the book’s researcher, and I went through all the records of the impeachment committee and found these text messages between Giuliani and Lev Parnas, who was helping him fish for anti-Biden information in Ukraine. Watching his descent into complete immorality is a very alluring subject. From a writer’s point of view? It’s such an epic story. Much of what he’s done in recent years has been appalling. Vanity Fair: You’re now the Robert Caro of Rudy Giuliani.Īndrew Kirtzman: In a thousand years, I would never make that comparison. And it led him to make a slew of decisions which helped destroy himself and harmed the country.” “This is a person who always saw himself as a man of destiny.

“Giuliani’s moral certitude has driven him all his life and continues to: He’s right, everyone else is wrong,” he tells Vanity Fair. Tying everything together is Kirtzman’s assessment of what has propelled both the successes and failures in his subject’s saga. It’s an unsparing portrait, but it isn’t an attack. The book is loaded with psychological and farcical detail, including Giuliani scrambling a 2020 presidential-debate prep session. Giuliani breaks news-about Giuliani, at a low point in 2008, skulking through a tunnel beneath Mar-a-Lago and about Giuliani’s rumored girlfriend, in 2021, beseeching Donald Trump to pardon Giuliani in advance. Not long after the first book appeared, Kirtzman was with Giuliani as the World Trade Center collapsed, a shared experience that adds nuance to the new book’s narrative.

#Giuliani figleaf tv#

His new book, Giuliani, is Kirtzman’s second biography of “America’s mayor.” The first, published in 2000, sprung from Kirtzman’s years of covering Giuliani for NY1, the city’s 24-hour TV news station. It was one of the stranger mysteries of the Trump era: What happened to Rudy Giuliani? How did the former two-term mayor of New York City go from righteous legal crusader-if pugnacious figure-and hero of September 11 to an unhinged peddler of election-fraud conspiracy theories? Had Giuliani always been unscrupulous, or had he lately lost his mind? Andrew Kirtzman’s answer is neither-and both.