Me, Governor? : : My Life in the Rough-and-Tumble World of New Jersey Politics / / Richard J. Codey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Codey, Richard J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 14 Photographs
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; 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 --; About the Authors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780813550763; 9783110688610
• DOI: 10.36019/9780813550763
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Richard J. Codey.

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.