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Within a few years as U.S. Attorney, Giuliani was probably the nation’s best-known crime-fighter since J. Edgar Hoover. That was due both to how many important convictions he secured and to his genius for promoting them. Though Giuliani expanded the U.S. Attorney’s office to 132 assistants, he presented himself as the iconic figurehead of that
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Frank Donovan, a lifetime close friend and a lawyer from Detroit. He was known among his friends and clients as a brilliant legal analyst with a nonaggressive temperament. No litigator. When we were both twenty, I remember him saying: "When there's a fight, I pick up my hat and go home." He had a large head, somewhat out of proportion to his medium
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Isadore Sharp • Four Seasons
Bill is the person to whom everyone turns when they need something. The word “no” just isn’t in his vocabulary. He fixes cars for women at his church. He coaches his son’s little league baseball team. His buddies call on him when they need help moving. He looks after his widowed mother every evening after work.
Robert Glover • No More Mr. Nice Guy
Robin Sloan • The Golden Door



Goodman served as the key catalyst in introducing mainstream America to the wonders of hot big band jazz.