Newsweek magazine has an interest article on Rudy Giuliani's early years growing up in New York in an Italian/American family that is quite good. One quote that intrigued me is as follows:
he has a ripe sense of his own, and his nation's, magnificence and destiny roughly on par with that of Winston Churchill's, whose works Giuliani recommended to his schoolmates, along with his favorite operas by Verdi. Just as Churchill's character was shaped by the myths of his forebears in his ancestral home, Blenheim Palace, seat of the Duke of Marlborough, Giuliani's was forged by the moral ambiguities of his upbringing and the eternal American melodrama of rising above one's past while honoring, or at least accepting, it.
To read the entire Newsweek article click on the title for a link.
By the way look at the picture above taken in the hours after the 9/11 attack .... who would you pick as a leader in a time of crisis when leadership and courage are needed? Yes, I know it's only a picture but sometimes pictures say a lot! Yes, that's Hillery behind the breathing mask with her hands folded and .....
