Politics and Pasta: How I Prosecuted Mobsters, Rebuilt a Dying City, Dined with Sinatra, Spent Five Years in a Federally Funded Gated Comm

by David Fisher, Vincent "Buddy" Cianci Jr., David Fisher

Book Overview

An election is a war and "to the victor belongs the spoils." As I learned so well, that's the real democratic process. After all, you'll never see a victorious politician tell his supporters, "I want to thank all of you who worked so hard for my election. However, in the interest of good government, I've decided to give all the jobs to those people who voted against me." My name is Buddy Cianci. I spent almost three decades as mayor of Providence...before...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312592809
• ISBN13: 9780312592806
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"