After Bloomberg People

Profile of the New York mayor in his final days. “At dinner parties, while drinking copious amounts of wine, he makes plain his contempt for the <em>New York Times</em>, and for President Obama, who occupies the office he craves but will never achieve”. “Bloomberg is having a hard time reconciling himself to the inevitability of a successor — he believes that the current candidates lack stature, gravitas, and independence” (8,600 words)