"Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer" By Brooke A. Masters (New York: Henry Holt; 368 pages; $26) "Nice kid. He's gonna get killed," Daniel Patrick Moynihan, New York's senior U.S. senator, growled backstage after grudgingly endorsing Eliot Spitzer's 1998 candidacy for attorney general of New York. Moynihan, a fabled handicapper, was wrong: Spitzer won -- albeit barely, by 25,186 votes out of 4.3 million cast, and only after a recount. Now, thanks to his highly publicized attacks on the fraud and abuse in the financial services industry, he's a household name, the most famous (or infamous, depending...