Fred Siegel is the author, most recently, of The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life (2005), which received the cover review in the New York Times Book Review .
Francis College in Brooklyn and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute..
Siegel is currently a scholar in residence at St.
A former senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington, D.
C., Mr.
He has also appeared widely on TV and radio.
The former editor of City Journal , he has written for the Wall Street Journal , the New York Times, The Atlantic, Commentary, The New Republic, Dissent , and many other publications.
He has written widely on American and European politics and was described as the historian of the American city in a November 2011 profile in the Wall Street Journal . in the twentieth century.
His previous book, The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.
C., L.
A., and the Fate of America\'s Big Cities , was named by Peter Jennings as one of the 100 most important books about the U.
S.
Fred Siegel is the author, most recently, of The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life (2005), which received the cover review in the New York Times Book Review