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03105aam a2200385 i 4500 001 32587E9286E611EB80D4A9DB35ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210317010020 008 200717s2020 inua b 001 0beng 010 $a 2020032569 020 $a 1587315076 020 $a 9781587315077 035 $a (OCoLC)1155212244 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d YUS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ny 050 00 $a F125.3.C86 $b M27 2020 100 1 $a Marlin, George J., $d 1952- $e author. 245 10 $a Mario Cuomo : $b the myth and the man / $c George J. Marlin. 264 1 $a South Bend, Indiana : $b St. Augustine's Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xiv, 408 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Among all the fifty-six men who have served as New York's governor, none was more complicated, self-righteous, pugilistic, and exasperating than Mario Cuomo. As governor, Mario Cuomo is remembered most for his advocacy of the "personally-opposed-but" position on abortion that led to confrontations with Catholic Church hierarchy, and for dithering about his presidential ambitions, that led the media to dub him the "Hamlet on the Hudson." His political style reminded many of Machiavelli; Cuomo styled himself a successor to St. Thomas More. In this political profile, George J. Marlin sets the record straight on Mario Cuomo. Marlin traces Cuomo's political rise and documents how and why he abandoned his public opposition to abortion to be elected New York's chief executive. In great detail, Marlin describes the protracted conflict between Cuomo and his church on abortion and refutes the governor's claim that his "position on abortion is absolutely theologically sound." Marlin critiques Cuomo's famous 1984 Democratic convention speech as nothing more than the usual high-toned partisan liberal bromides that offered little, if anything, that hadn't been touted by his party for half a century. The book also uncovers New York State's fiscal, economic, and social decline during Cuomo's 12 years as governor. It explains why voters repudiated Cuomo's version of a welfare state when he sought a fourth term in 1994 and why, in the words of his son, Governor Andrew Cuomo, his father was "more accomplished as a speech-giver than as a governor." Marlin skillfully separates the Cuomo "Public Intellectual" myth from the political man"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Cuomo, Mario M., $d 1932-2015. 600 17 $a Cuomo, Mario M., $d 1932-2015. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00105050 650 0 $a Governors $z New York (State) $v Biography. 651 0 $a New York (State) $x Politics and government $y 1951- 650 7 $a Governors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00945704 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 651 7 $a New York (State) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210280 648 7 $a Since 1951 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220526014842.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=32587E9286E611EB80D4A9DB35ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search