Codey Richard J. Codey

Me, Governor? (eBook, PDF)

My Life in the Rough-and-Tumble World of New Jersey Politics

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780813550763
• Artikelnr.: 72341775

Autorenporträt

Richard J. Codey

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. "McGreevey's Gay, I'm the New Governor"
2. The Undertaker's Son: Death and Politics Go Together
3. The Give-and-Take of Politics
4. Mary Jo: Love at First Sight
5. Family
6. Sports in My Life
7. Politics Gets Very Dirty
8. My Crusade on Behalf of the Mentally Ill
9. State Senate President
10. Governor, Not Acting Governor
11. Keeping NFL Football in New Jersey
12. Bowing Out as Governor
13. The Past...and the Future? 
Index