by Richard J. Codey
Rutgers University Press, 2011
Cloth: 978-0-8135-5045-9 | eISBN: 978-0-8135-8093-7
Library of Congress Classification F140.22.C63A3 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 328.73092

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK

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.


See other books on: 1946- | 1951- | Governors | Legislators | New Jersey
See other titles from Rutgers University Press