My brother Steve, my father Irving, my mother Anne, and me in the Catskills, 1953.

Varsity Tennis, Great Neck South High School, 1963.

With Tama in dance contest, Great Neck South High School, 1963. Credit: Bob Gruen.

At the United Nations, 1973. Credit: UN/Chen

Poster for Who Runs Congress?, 1972.

New Yorker cartoon, 1972. Credit: Joseph Mirachi

White House meeting on consumer agenda: I’m next to Esther Peterson and Ralph two seats to President Carter’s left, 1978.

Caricature of me as a congressional candidate, 1980. Credit: David Levine

Campaigning for Congress with Jenya and Senator Ted Kennedy, 1980.

During Ramsey Clark for Senate campaign, 1974.

At Nuclear Freeze Rally organized by wife Deni with one million people at Central Park, June 12, 1982.

Marching for reproductive choice in Washington, D.C., 1989.

Picketing Eastern Airlines with Jenya, 1989.

At fund-raising party for Senator Hart with Warren Beatty and Terry McAuliffe, 1984. Credit: J. Ross Baughman

With Fidel Castro in Havana, 1987.

Hosting Democracy Project presidential forum with Senator Al Gore, 1988.

With Deni, children, and parents winning Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, 1986.

Campaigning for U.S. Senate with Gov. Mario Cuomo.

“Singing” with Mandy Patinkin and Carly Simon at gala fund-raiser.

On CNN Crossfire set with Pat Buchanan at 1988 Republican Convention.

With Buckley pre-air and then on set of Firing Line with Buckley and Koch, 1988.

Sworn in as Consumer Affairs Commissioner, 1990.

Commissioner Green shutting down unlawful store, 1990. Credit: Dan Brinzac/NYPost.

Introducing Nelson Mandela to Jenya, with Mayor Giuliani, 1991.

Campaigning with Governor Clinton for president at H&R Block, NYC, 1992.

Protesting Joe Camel with a camel, 1995.

Announcing my Tuesday Nite Out initiative with Chrisopher Reeve, Jackie Mason, Alec Baldwin, Mayor Dinkins, and Colleen Dewhurst, 1992. Credit: Karen Winner

With Andrew and Mayor Giuliani at our swearing-in, January 1994.

As the presiding officer, New York City Council, 1994.

At 70th Town Hall meeting, 2000.

Sworn in for second term, 1997.

With Mayor Dinkins at his concession speech—that’s Sharpton and Jackson behind him—the night that I also won for Public Advocate, 1993.

Hillary, Chelsea, Koch, me celebrating the night she won her U.S. Senate seat, 2000.

Announcing for Mayor with family and Bill Bratton in Brooklyn, April, 2001.

With Bill and Hillary Clinton at Unity Dinner, October, 2001, hosted by Jon Stewart.

Campaigning for Mayor, Puerto Rican Day Parade.

New York Post front page from September 11, 2001, now hanging in 9/11 Museum.

September 12, 2001, New York Times front page.

My family and me in a campaign van the night before November general election, 2001.

Concession speech election night, with Deni, family, supporters. Credit: N.Y. Daily News Archive.

With Arianna Huffington and Mary Matalin on Both Sides Now, 2012.

Getting some editorial tips from grandkids Ava and Otis, 5 and 2, to whom this book is dedicated, 2015. Credit: Deni Frand