The Prince

The Washington Post previewed publication of The Prince (https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=604a423dae7e8a10b787fa61&s=604b856b9d2fda4c88075ff7&linknum=7&linktot=84) Author writes regularly for The Guardian and Jacobin, both of which will cover the book. Major coverage, especially in New York but also across the country, is anticipated in prominent media including The New York Times, The New York Post, New York magazine, New York One, Brian Lehrer on WNYC, Democracy Now!, Useful Idiots with Matt Taibbi and Katie Halpern, The Rising with Krystal Ball WBAI and BRIC TV. Pandemic permitting, a launch event will be held at NYU where Barkan teaches - otherwise online.

Governor Andrew Cuomo, scion of Mario Cuomo, is today as famous as his father, also a governor of New York state for three terms. Like Robert Moses, he is one of New York’s great and infamous power brokers. Though initially lavishly celebrated for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, not least by himself, it is now apparent that Cuomo’s management of the crisis was a juddering and fatal failure. Thousands died because, ignoring the advice of experts, he shut down too late and returned still sick patients to nursing homes. The crisis was intensified by his previous commitment to austerity, which saw the slashing of funding to hospitals. A vital riposte to Cuomo’s recently published book about the pandemic, now increasingly derided as self-serving and deceitful, The Prince is a searing indictment of Cuomo’s handling of coronavirus and his time overall in the highest office of the state.