Kathleen Brady

America's Mayor: The Hidden History of Rudy Giuliani's New York

"Hindsight is 20-20, as Giuliani has intoned since leaving office and building a multi-million dollar consulting business. But one wonders what the pugnacious Giuliani would be saying if a rival had been mayor on 9/11. What if anyone but the self-involved Giuliani had built a highly publicized multi-million dollar emergency command post near a known terrorist target? What if after being warned for years that New York City was subject to sudden attack, that person never upgraded the fire department's communication equipment or devised a citywide evacuation plan? What if that person had installed a 6,000-gallon diesel fuel tank at 7 World Trade Center, which became the only steel-reinforced high-rise to fall in a fire? Would Giuliani be saying that in placing large tanks of diesel fuel at 7 World Trade Center, that person had destroyed his own bunker and helped to bring an entire building down?"
-- Excerpt from Chapter 16, "Command"
by Kathleen Brady

Selected Works

Anthology
Columns

Biography
Lucille The Life of Lucille Ball
A fresh perspective on a complex woman
Ida Tarbell Portrait of A Muckraker
The woman who without the right to vote took on the world's most powerful man and won
Health
Your Pain is Real
A neurologist's guide to chronic pain.