Me, Governor?: My Life in the Rough-and-Tumble World of New Jersey Politics

By Richard Codey and Richard J. Codey

Book Overview

And so, a new chapter in the life of Richard J. Codey, an undertaker's son born and bred in the Garden State, began on the night of August 12, 2004--he knew from that point his life would never be the same . . . and it hasn't been. His memoir is a breezy, humorous, perceptive, and candid chronicle of local and state government from a man who lived among political movers and shakers for more than three decades. Codey became governor of New Jersey, succeeding James McGreevey, who resigned following a homosexual affair--a shattering scandal and set of circumstances that were bizarre, even for the home state of the Sopranos. At once a political autobiography, filled with lively, incisive anecdotes that record how Codey restored respectability and set a record for good politics and good government in a state so often tarnished, this is also the story about a man and his family.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813550459
• ISBN13: 9780813550459
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Rivergate Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Grade 10 to Postsecondary