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Ed Koch
Ed Koch was mayor of New York for three terms (1978-1989). Prior to being mayor, Koch served for nine years as a congressman and two years as a member of the New York City Council. He is currently a partner in the law firm of Bryan Cave LLP. Koch hosts a Friday evening call-in radio program on Bloomberg AM 1130 (WBBR) and is also a commentator on that station; he also appears weekly on NY1 television with former Senator Alfonse D’Amato. Koch is the author of numerous books, including Mayor, Citizen Koch, Ed Koch on Everything, Giuliani Nasty Man, I’m Not Done Yet: Remaining Relevant, Buzz: How to Create It and Win with It, and most recently, The Koch Papers: My Fight Against Anti-Semitism.
Jonathan Soffer
Jonathan Soffer is an urban historian and the author of Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City.
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Encyclopædia Britannica Article
- Koch, Ed(ward Irving)
(born Dec. 12, 1924, New York, N.Y., U.S.) U.S. politician. After serving in the army during World War II, he graduated from New York University Law School. He was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1968, and in 1978 he was elected to the first of three terms as mayor of New York City. Koch is credited with bringing fiscal stability to the insolvent city and with instituting merit selection of city judges. His brash forthrightness made him an entertaining and popular figure, but his demeanour and his rhetoric increasingly came to be seen as unkind and divisive and eventually resulted in his defeat. He later became a columnist and talk-show host.
- Koch, Ed(ward Irving) on britannica.com
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