As His Ratings Rise, Stores To Receive New Edition of Anti-Giuliani Book
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With Mayor Giuliani surging in the polls, publishers of a book critical of his status as a September 11 hero are hurrying another edition into stores.
The paperback edition of “Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11” is now due out in June, several months earlier than initially planned. Authors Wayne Barrett and Dan Collins are writing what publishers expect will be a new afterword that will address the former mayor’s burgeoning presidential campaign.
“We thought we would take advantage of all the news surrounding Mr. Giuliani,” the publisher of Harper Perennial, Carrie Kania, said yesterday in an interview. She said the company settled on plans for a June 18 publication date in the last couple of weeks.
The book, which first came out in hardcover in August 2006, is a direct assault on what the authors deem the “mythmaking” of Mr. Giuliani’s performance in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, which thrust him into the national spotlight and has formed the basis for his White House bid. Chiefly, Messrs. Barrett and Collins write that Mr. Giuliani virtually ignored the threat of terrorism before the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, writing that he “allowed the city to meet the disaster of September 11 unprepared in myriad ways.”
