MEMOIR OF A DEFEATED POLITICIAN: Former Ralph Nader ally and Air America (remember them?) president Mark Green was a perennial gadfly in New York politics and a frequent guest on the cable/PBS talk show circuit in the 1980s, but narrowly failed in his bid to succeed Rudy Giuliani as mayor in 2001.  Reading Carla Main’s review of his memoirs in City Journal, it seems safe to conclude that the ongoing de Blasio debacle would have arrived in New York much sooner had Green won.