Former Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer

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Michiko Kakutani, From ‘Mr. Clean’ to ‘Luv Gov.’ New York Times, Apr. 16, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/books/16book.html?scp=1&sq=%22luv%20gov%22&st=cse
(book review on Peter Elkind, Rough Justice; The rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer. Portfolio, 2010)

My comment:
(1) KAKUTANI, Japanese family name 角谷
(2) The "Luv Gov"--both words share the same vowel--is short for "Love Governor."
(3) Theodore Dreiser
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Dreiser
(1871-1945)
(4) Tom Wolf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wolf

I do not like to read. I was not aware of Theodore Dreiser. To me, Tom Wolf is noted for "The Bonfire of the Vanities" which was boring that I could not force myself to read more than a few pages.
(5) Homeric (adj): "of, relating to, or characteristic of the Greek poet Homer, his age, or his writings"
(6) The news story that won Pulitzer Prize:

Danny Hakim and William K. Rashbaum, New York governor linked to prostitution ring inquiry. New York Times, Mar. 11, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/world/americas/11iht-11spitzer.10907197.html?scp=17&sq=Rashbaum%20Hakim%20spitzer&st=cse
(Client 9)

(7)
(a) Ahab was king of Israel. 1 Kings (a book of Old Testament)
(b) However, the NYT article alludes to another Ahab.

Moby Dick
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick
(Section 4.3 Ahab: "Ahab is the tyrannical captain of the Pequod who is driven by a monomaniacal desire to kill Moby Dick, the whale that maimed him on the previous whaling voyage")

(c) The NYT report states, "Mr. Spitzer’s Ahab-like obsession with Joseph Bruno, then the Senate majority leader."

See
Danny Hakim, Book Details Spitzer’s Fall and His Wife’s Anguish. New York Times, Apr. 15, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/nyregion/15spitzer.html?scp=2&sq=eliot%20police%20bruno&st=cse
("Much space is spent on another scandal: the Spitzer administration’s use of the State Police to gather Mr. Bruno’s travel records, an episode that escalated after a blistering report by Mr. [New York Attorney General Andrew] Cuomo’s office.")

(8) I do not know what "Irwin" means here.
(9) Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_of_Christmas_Yet_to_Come
(The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, or the Ghost of Christmas Future, is a fictional character in English novelist Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. It is the ghost that haunts the miser Ebenezer Scrooge, in order to prompt him to adopt a more caring attitude in life and avoid the horrid afterlife of Marley")
(10) Lieutenant Governor David Governor succeeded Mr. Spitzer (both Democrats) as governor of New York State on March 17, 2008.

Sam Roberts, Trying Times for Father of New York’s Governor Under Fire. New York Times, Mar. 11, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/nyregion/11basil.html

Quote:

"On March 10, 2008, David Paterson, then lieutenant governor, was unwrapping a curried chicken takeout lunch in the State Capitol when the governor’s office called to say that Gov. Eliot Spitzer had become embroiled in a prostitution scandal.

"Mr. Paterson immediately called his father.

"'Well,' Basil Paterson advised, 'you say a prayer.'

"'I’ve already said a prayer for Eliot,' the son replied.

“'That’s good,' the father said. 'Now you’d better say one for yourself.'

(11) Svengali (n; Etymology: Svengali, villainous hypnotist in the novel Trilby (1894) by George du Maurier): "a person who manipulates or exerts excessive control over another"

Both English definitions in (5) and (11) are from www.m-w.com.

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