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Rough Justice by Peter Elkind
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Rough Justice

The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

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Narrator Arthur Morey

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Length 12 hours 43 minutes
Language English
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With a combination of talent, hard work, connections, and family wealth, Eliot Spitzer built an amazing career. By his late forties, he'd gone from Princeton to Harvard Law to dramatic success as a prosecutor and attorney general to the governorship of New York. Many thought he would become the first Jewish president of the United States. Then came the prostitution scandal that shocked and mystified the nation.



Peter Elkind's definitive account gets at all sides of this complex man: the well-intentioned do-gooder, the aggressive lawyer, the hardball politician, the dutiful son, the loving husband and father, and the secretive "Client 9" of the Emperor's Club escort service.



Elkind interviewed dozens of key sources, ranging from Spitzer's family, friends, and closest aides, to targets of his high-profile investigations, to central players in the prostitution ring. He reveals many groundbreaking new details about Spitzer's rise, his short time as governor, and the way his enemies plotted against him.



The result is a gripping, almost Shakespearean narrative—a tragedy of one man's noble intentions and fatal flaws and the powerful forces (both internal and external) that destroyed him.

Peter Elkind is editor at large at Fortune magazine and an award-winning investigative reporter. He is coauthor, with Bethany McLean, of the national bestseller The Smartest Guys in the Room and the author of The Death Shift. He has written for the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, and Texas Monthly, and he is a former editor of the Dallas Observer.

Arthur Morey has recorded over two hundred audiobooks in history, fiction, science, business, and religion, earning a number of AudioFile Earphones Awards and two Audie Award nominations. He was an editor at two publishers and taught writing at Northwestern University. His plays and songs have been produced in New York, Chicago, and Milan, where he has also performed. Arthur attended Harvard and the University of Chicago.

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"Narrator Arthur Morey provides a smooth, unadorned rendering of a complex story. Eventually, Morey fades to the background as the sad drama that leads to disgrace takes center stage." ---AudioFile Expand reviews
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