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　　COP: “Buddy, I think this is a whorehouse.”

BUDDY CIANCI: “Now I know why they made you a detective.”

Welcome to Providence, Rhode Island, where corruption is

entertainment and Mayor Buddy Cianci presided over the

longest-running lounge act in American politics. In The Prince of

Providence, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Mike Stanton tells a

classic story of wiseguys, feds, and politicians on a carousel of

crime and redemption.

Buddy Cianci was part urban visionary, part Tony Soprano—a flawed

political genius in the mold of Huey Long and James Michael Curley.

His lust for power cost him his marriage, his family, and close

friendships. Yet he also revitalized the city of Providence, where

ethnic factions jostle with old-moneyed New Englanders and

black-clad artists from the Rhode Island School of Design rub

shoulders with scam artists from City Hall.

For nearly a quarter of a century, Cianci dominated this uneasy

melting pot. During his first administration, twenty-two political

insiders were convicted of corruption. In 1984, Cianci resigned

after pleading guilty to felony assault, for torturing a man he

suspected of sleeping with his estranged wife. In 1990, in a

remarkable comeback, Cianci was elected mayor once again; he went

on to win national acclaim for transforming a dying industrial city

into a trendy arts and tourism mecca.

But in 2001, a federal corruption probe dubbed Operation Plunder

Dome threatened to bring the curtain down on Cianci once and for

all.

Mike Stanton takes readers on a remarkable journey through the

underside of city life, into the bizarre world of the mayor and his

supporting cast, including:

· “Buckles” Melise, the city official in charge of vermin

control, who bought Providence twice as much rat poison as the city

of Cleveland, which was at the time four times as large, and wound

up increasing Providence’s rat population. During a garbage strike,

Buckles sledgehammered one city employee and stuck his thumb in

another’s eye. Cianci would later describe this as “great public

policy.”

· Anthony “the Saint” St. Laurent, a major Rhode Island bookmaker

and loan shark, who tried to avoid prison by citing his medical

need for forty bowel irrigations a day, thus earning himself the

nickname “Public Enema Number One.”

· Dennis Aiken, a celebrated FBI agent and public corruption

expert, who asked to be sent to “the Louisiana of the North,” where

he enlisted an undercover businessman to expose the corrupt secrets

of Cianci’s City Hall.

The Prince of Providence is a colorful and engrossing account of

one of the most tragicomic figures in modern American life—and the

city he transformed.

From the Hardcover edition.

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