[quote]Many thought Eliot Spitzer was the guy who could clean up Albany—until he went to war with almost every politician, of either party, in New York State. Interviewing the governor, the author tries to make sense of Spitzer’s troubling, tantrum-filled year.

by David Margolick January 2008

Eliot Spitzer is forcefully resisted by New York Senate leader Joseph L. Bruno as state attorney general Andrew Cuomo patrols the beat. Photo illustration by John Corbitt.

I t was Inauguration Day—Day One, the day everything was supposed to change. The strains of “Fanfare for the Common Manâ€