“Bill de Blasio, for his part, became the mayor of New York, surely the most powerful local political position in the nation, and arguably - after Giuliani and Bloomberg - one with a national base, one with, practically speaking, no job at all. He went from marginal political flotsam and jetsam to extraordinary centrality within a few months time.”

American journalist and media consultant

Michael Wolff is an American journalist, media consultant, columnist, and contributor, known for his reporting on media and business. He has worked for USA Today and The Hollywood Reporter, and he was a former editor of Adweek. Wolff has written seven books. Among them are Burn Rate, published in 1998 about his own dot-com company, and The Man Who Owns the News, a 2008 biography of Rupert Murdoch. He also co-founded the news aggregation website Newser. His work has earned two National Magazine Awards and a Mirror Award.