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On the campaign trail this year, Rudy Giuliani has cast himself in the model of Ronald Reagan. But one of his senior aides, in a 2004 book, offered another parallel: William Jefferson Clinton...

It's a view that matches more closely with Giuliani’s political success in New York, and one that could preview his more moderate general election appeal. It's also, at its core, a warning to Republican conservative partisans that Giuliani's feelings toward his party's right edge may be less respect than "contempt."

...Avlon's chapter on Giuliani captures the former mayor's disdain for partisanship by way of a famous image — of Giuliani dressed as a woman at a New York City benefit. Avlon recalls the words that went with the scene.

"When actress Julie Andrews asked him onstage if he now better understood the challenge she faced every night in 'Victor Victoria' — 'playing a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman' — Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani replied that she obviously hadn't seen his act: 'a Democrat pretending to be a Republican pretending to be a Democrat.'"