On Jan. 26, 2010, New York 1's "Inside City Hall" featured Wagner College professor Seymour Lachman, director of the Hugh L. Carey Institute for Government Reform, and Robert Polner, a former Newsday reporter who is currently a public affairs officer for NYU's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Policy. Lachman and Polner were there to discuss their 2010 book, "The Man Who Saved New York: Hugh Carey and the Great Fiscal Crisis of 1975," a political biography of former New York Governor Carey that focused particularly on the way he steered the City of New York away from imminent bankruptcy when he assumed office at the beginning of 1975. The book is being hailed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo as a blueprint of what New York State must do now to steer clear of similarly rocky shoals in the wake of the Great Recession.
Prof. Lachman interviewed on NY1
January 28, 2011
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