Volume 21, Number 14 · September 19, 1974
A Curious Politician
By Murray Kempton
Forest Hills Diary: The Crisis of Low-Income Housing
by Mario Matthew Cuomo, with a preface by Jimmy Breslin, an afterword by Richard Sennett
Random House, 209 pp., $6.95
Mario Cuomo, a Brooklyn lawyer, has been designated as their candidate for lieutenant governor by a majority of the members of the Democratic State Committee of New York. That, of course, is only a compliment, and a trifling one, unless his choice is ratified in the Democratic primary on September 10. His account of his troubles as mediator between a group of outraged citizens and their mayor appears then, although only by coincidence, as a kind of campaign autobiography. His modesty and his sense, if not of failure, at least of having fallen short make his book a curious and affecting specimen of a genre that normally has very little room in it for reflections as complicated as his.
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