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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo,
with a lack of self-awareness seldom seen outside hereditary dictatorships, is writing a book on managing the Covid-19 outbreak - after leading the state to the US' highest coronavirus death toll.
Crown Publishing announced the book, titled '
American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic', on Twitter on Tuesday, and said it will be released on October 13, three weeks before the US presidential election. The book
will include leadership advice and a look at Cuomo's relationship with President Donald Trump.
Its release was announced the day after Cuomo gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention,
praising his state's success in dealing with the virus and blaming the Trump administration for allowing New York to be "ambushed" by the pandemic. "We went through hell, but we have learned so much," Cuomo said.
The book likely won't dwell on the fact that New York, the fourth-largest US state by population, has had nearly 33,000
Covid-19 deaths, over double the nation's second-worst death toll.
Nor will it emphasize that Cuomo's own actions contributed to many of those deaths.
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