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Alexander Hamilton Welcoming Remarks Maurice R The Sixth Annual Manhattan Institute AlexanderAward Dinner Hamilton Tuesday Evening, April 25th 2006 52 Vanderbilt Avenue New York, NY 10017 U Phone: (212) 599-7000 Fax: (212) 599-3494 nd Email: [email protected] | 42 Street www.manhattan-institute.org CiprianiNew York City Award Dinner Alexander Hamilton Welcoming Remarks Maurice R. Greenberg U Dinner Chairman The Alexander Hamilton Award was created to celebrate New York and honor U those individuals helping to foster the revitalization of our nation’s cities. We chose to name the award after Hamilton because, like the Manhattan Institute, he was a fervent proponent of commerce and civic life, and he believed the health of the nation hinged upon vibrant cities. He was also the quintessential New 2006 Honorees Yorker. Hamilton went to university, joined the army, and practiced law in New Tom Wolfe York. His last home stands in Harlem; his grave is at the crown of Wall Street Author and Journalist across from the Bank of New York, which he started; the newspaper he founded, the New York Post, is still a powerful voice in the city he loved. New York’s - Introduction By - style—passionate, entrepreneurial, ambitious, and inclusive—reflected his vision of David Brooks America and shaped his politics. and Hamilton’s greatest contribution to New York, the nation, and the science of The Honorable self-government was the Federalist Papers, the series of newspaper articles written, along with James Madison and John Jay, under the pseudonym Publius. Rudolph W. Giuliani 107th Mayor of the City of New York These articles sought to persuade the American people that the proposed federal constitution was a good idea and should be ratified. While we have prospered for - Introduction By - two centuries by taking Publius’s advice, it must be remembered that success was never guaranteed—nor did it exempt us from maintaining and improving what Mortimer B. Zuckerman the nation’s founders built. For the past 25 years, the Manhattan Institute has worked to create a climate of opinion in the mainstream media that supports this “experiment in self-government.” U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U The Honorable Rudolph W. Giuliani Tom Wolfe 107th Mayor of the City of New York Author and Journalist Rudy Giuliani is a New Yorker and a public servant to the core. While he has served this city and New York has always been a magnet for those whose ambition is to make a living—and make a the nation admirably in a number of leadership positions, tonight we honor him for his eight-year difference—through the printed word. Tom Wolfe has established himself as one of our nation’s tenure as the 107th mayor of the City of New York. When he was sworn into office in 1994, great writers, and while he is known for his southern manners and sartorial splendor, Gotham is his fellow honoree Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities still captured the political and cultural his adopted home—and one of his most persistent literary inspirations. dystopia that could have permanently defined New York. Giuliani envisioned a different city, and as mayor—with Hamiltonian leadership—he presided over its founding. Wolfe was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, and educated at Washington and Lee (B.A., 1951) and Yale (Ph.D., American studies, 1957). Exhausted with academia, he took a job as a Giuliani pursued an ambitious agenda in City Hall. He transformed the NYPD and spearheaded newspaper man. Wolfe’s first taste of literary fame arose from his work for New York magazine, dramatic reductions in the city’s crime rate, making New York the safest large city in America by where he helped to pioneer the literary experiments in nonfiction that became known as the New a wide margin. He cut taxes by billions of dollars, improving the city’s business climate and lead- Journalism. Over the course of his career, Wolfe has published six collections of his magazine ing New York out of a devastating recession. He revolutionized the city’s welfare system, placing work, all of them bestsellers. Wolfe captured and laid bare the soul of the 1960s in The Pump House the emphasis on work rather than entitlement, and cutting the rolls by more than two-thirds. And Gang and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; lamented American art and architecture in The Painted he pressed for change in the public-education system, advocating charter schools, vouchers, and Word and From Bauhaus to Our House; skewered fashion-conscious racial politics in Radical Chic administrative reform in the city’s cumbersome educational bureaucracy. Any mayor can boast of & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers; and unabashedly celebrated American ingenuity, courage, and an ambitious agenda; Rudy delivered results. competitive spirit in The Right Stuff, which earned him the American Book Award for nonfiction and his first Hollywood option. Giuliani’s innovative and energetic approach to urban governance—on issues ranging from polic- ing to privatization—has been studied and emulated by cities around the country, and around Wolfe spent the better part of the 1980s working on his first novel, a story of New York City the world. In 1997, Giuliani was reelected mayor of New York by nearly 60 percent of the vote, high life—and low life. The Bonfire of the Vanities topped the New York Times bestseller list for two carrying four of the five boroughs. months and remained on the list for more than a year, selling over 800,000 copies in hardcover. The book then became the number-one bestselling paperback, with sales topping two million, In the days and weeks following September 11, 2001, after the worst attack on American soil and later, another major motion picture. since Pearl Harbor, Giuliani rallied the city and the nation. With less than three months left in his term, Giuliani was anything but a lame duck, marshaling local and national resources, maintaining A Man in Full, published in 1998, headed the New York Times bestseller list for ten weeks and has order, and comforting the survivors and the bereaved. His leadership in that hour has been hailed sold nearly 1.4 million copies in hardcover; and 2004’s I Am Charlotte Simmons, about contempo- by world figures from George W. Bush to Tony Blair to Junichiro Koizumi. Giuliani was Time rary college life and mores, became the latest in Wolfe’s long line of national bestsellers. magazine’s Person of the Year for 2001, and he received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II of England in 2002. In May 2006, Wolfe will deliver the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the most prestigious honor the federal government bestows for After leaving City Hall, the mayor founded Giuliani Partners, a consulting firm. He also maintains distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities. an active public-speaking schedule throughout America and the world. Wolfe lives in New York City with his wife, Sheila; his daughter, Alexandra; and his son, Tommy. U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U Maurice R. Greenberg Mortimer B. Zuckerman Our dinner chairman, Manhattan Institute trustee Hank Greenberg, is a quintessentially Introducing “America’s Mayor” is Mort Zuckerman, editor-in-chief of U.S. News & public-spirited capitalist—one of New York City’s most generous philanthropists, World Report, publisher of the New York Daily News, and founder and chairman of who has enriched our civic life with his dauntless support for hospitals, universities, Boston Properties, Inc. Nothing lasting happens in a democracy without the support museums, and at least one think tank. of public opinion. The Daily News was instrumental in fostering a climate of informed opinion that made it possible for Rudy Giuliani to be elected and to effectively govern Greenberg received early and advanced training in the risk and casualty business: in an overwhelmingly Democratic city.
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