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Politics Books & the Arts Columnists Authority Figure Page 1 of 16 z HOME z | z POLITICS z | z BOOKS & THE ARTS z | z COLUMNISTS z | z SERVICES z | z THE CURRENT ISSUE z | z SUBSCRIBE TO TNR z | z TNR BLOGS z Member Search Site USER: Login TNR BLOGS The New Republic Authority Figure by John B. Judis The childhood roots of Giuliani's strange views of liber Yet Another Reason Post Date Monday, October 29, 2007 Not To Watch the DISCUSS ARTICLE [16]| PRINT| EMAIL ARTIC Sunday Shows: Posted 02:55:00 PM | At a town hall meeting in Exeter, New Hampshire, last 10.29.07 local resident Bob Roughsedge introduced Rudy Giulia Carl Levin, Please next mayor of the United States." No one tittered or sp Don't Scare the Puppies Afterward, Roughsedge wasn't even aware of the slip, Posted 02:51:00 PM | Giuliani, who is usually quick to correct, did not seem 10.29.07 either. Maybe that's because Giuliani is actually runnin http://tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=77ee1fa2-4331-41dd-9129-90b0fa0213ed 10/29/2007 Authority Figure Page 2 of 16 What Happens in New mayor of the United States. Hampshire? Posted 02:36:00 PM | Giuliani is selling himself to voters on the basis of his 10.29.07 New York's mayor. He is arguing that he has the kind o administrative experience that would prepare him to be Senator Judd Gregg "I've had a great deal of experience," Giuliani says. "I t Endorses Romney kind of experience that helps to prepare [you to be] pre Posted 03:19:00 PM | there's any experience that does." He also claims that h 10.29.07 exceptionally successful mayor. "I took a city that was Dodd's Liberal capital of America, and I left a city that was the safest i Challenge to Front- America," he declares. And he is saying that his approa Runners, Mukaskey governing the Big Apple is readily applicable to the na Posted 02:20:00 PM | international problems a president would face: "The th 10.29.07 did as mayor of New York City, during very difficult ti Netroots v. Obama New York City--not all of them, but many of them--are Posted 12:54:00 PM | transferable to what America needs now, and that's wh 10.29.07 asking people to vote for me." Perfect Information for Clearly, many Americans already buy the argument tha Law Students tenure in New York has equipped him to be a successfu Posted 12:10:00 PM | as he leads the GOP field in nationwide polls. But, for 10.23.07 remain unconvinced, there are two questions worth pon The first is whether Giuliani's tenure at City Hall was t unmitigated success he claims it to be, or whether he m The Burma Shave significant missteps as mayor that he could also make a Posted 02:30:00 AM | president. The second, and perhaps more important, qu 10.28.07 how Giuliani's behavior as mayor--and his underlying p TNR of government--would translate to his conduct in the W NEWSLETTERS: House. To answer that question requires understanding Email Address particular view of liberty and authority. TODAY AT TNR ONLINE By the time Giuliani took office as mayor in 1994, he h POLITICS BOOKS enjoyed a spectacular career as a U.S. attorney, becomi & THE ARTS scourge of the Mafia and Wall Street inside-traders, inc COLUMNISTS: Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky. In addition, he had a Select --> acquired a philosophy of government and a way of dea subordinates that would mark his eight years as mayor TODAY'S TOP up some of this approach in his years as a prosecutor, b http://tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=77ee1fa2-4331-41dd-9129-90b0fa0213ed 10/29/2007 Authority Figure Page 3 of 16 STORIES his core beliefs can be traced to his childhood in New Y The Dystopian his enrollment for 16 years in Catholic schools. Much o by John B. struck liberal New Yorkers as odd about Giuliani becom Judis understandable when seen in this light. A Journey Into the Dark Heart Giuliani was born in 1944 and grew up as part of a larg of Rudolph American extended family in Brooklyn. His grandmoth Giuliani with him and his parents, Harold and Helen D'Avanzo The Dems His mother's brother, who was married to his father's si Have Ways of downstairs, and other relatives lived nearby. Family me Making worked for each other, loaned each other money, and s Mukasey Talk even married each other. (Rudy would marry his secon Torture Regina Peruggi in 1968.) The bonds of family carried o by Benjamin friends. The son of Harold Giuliani's childhood friend L Wittes Carbonetti would end up working for Rudy's mayoral c The Dems do and his grandson would work in the Giuliani administr have a way to make the The ties of family loyalty defied conventional morality attorney Rudy's uncles were policemen, and another was a firem general uncle Leo D'Avanzo was a bookie and loan shark with nominee talk connections. According to Wayne Barrett's Rudy!--an i about guide to Giuliani's family and upbringing--Leo was see waterboarding. black sheep, but he remained a part of the Giuliani-D'A extended family. When Leo bought a bar in which to h operations, his brother Vincent, a patrolman, secured th license, and the bar itself was called "Vincent's." Leo e members of the family, notably Harold Giuliani. And, son, Lewis, got in trouble, Harold and Rudy Giuliani in on his behalf. Harold Giuliani led a troubled life. He wanted to be a b he couldn't see without thick glasses. Still, he lived mu early life by his fists. In 1934, he was arrested for arme and served a year and four months in Sing Sing. Afterw went to work in Leo D'Avanzo's bar as a bouncer and e charge of collecting loan payments and gambling debts the bar for several years to work as a school custodian, nervous breakdown, he returned. http://tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=77ee1fa2-4331-41dd-9129-90b0fa0213ed 10/29/2007 Authority Figure Page 4 of 16 Harold never told his son about his criminal past--Rudy only found out about it in 2000, from Barrett's biograph father was clearly ashamed of what he had done and tri protect Rudy from his own unsavory life. He discourag child from hanging around the bar with Leo's son, Lew 1951, he moved the family to Garden City, Long Island Rudy away from the bar. His message to his son was, e do as I say, not as I do. In 2001, Rudy Giuliani told Tim magazine, "He would say over and over, 'You can't tak that's not yours. You can't steal. Never lie, never steal.' and even as a young adult, I thought, 'What does he ke this for? I'm not going to steal anything.' " His father's words, along with the example of other fam members, had their effect. As a U.S. attorney, Rudy Gi prosecuted crooked cops, inside traders, corrupt politic the Mafia. He never appears to have had any mob ties h except for minor campaign infractions, to have engage corrupt practices. He also reproduced in his capacity as official the extended family, bound together by loyalty had grown up in--albeit, in this case, with a single dom figure. He called loyalty the "vital virtue" and surround with men and women who were sometimes termed "Ye Bernard Kerik, who would serve as his police commiss described entering Giuliani's inner circle as analogous becoming a "made man in a Mafia family." Like the G D'Avanzos, he also tolerated disreputable characters as they remained loyal. In Catholic schools, Giuliani learned the virtue of hard discipline, but he also acquired a Catholic outlook on g and society. At Bishop Loughlin in Brooklyn, an honor school to which Giuliani commuted from Garden City, classes were devoted to the study of religion. At Manh College, he had to take theology as well as ancient and philosophy (including Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquin his first two years, and he studied philosophy and polit http://tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=77ee1fa2-4331-41dd-9129-90b0fa0213ed 10/29/2007 Authority Figure Page 5 of 16 as a junior and senior. From all accounts, he took his le seriously. At one point, he even thought of becoming a There are two aspects of Catholic philosophy that show in Giuliani's political outlook. The first, which he woul found at almost any religious school, is a tendency to v and history as a moral contest between good and evil. T sharply in contrast to a secular post-Enlightenment view individuals--from presidents to petty thieves--as produc historical forces greater than themselves. The differenc Giuliani's view and the secular one would show up in h toward crime and criminals. Second, Giuliani was exposed to a specifically Catholi opposed to Protestant-individualist) view of the relation between authority and liberty--one that dates from Aqu Christian Aristotelianism, was spelled out in Pope Leo Encyclical on the Nature of Human Liberty, and still en currency today, even in the wake of Vatican II. Catholi do not see liberty as an end in itself, but as a means-a " endowment"--by which to achieve the common good. F happen, individuals have to be encouraged to use their well; and that is where authority comes into play.
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