TY  - BOOK
AU  - Codey,Richard J.
TI  - Me, Governor?: My Life in the Rough-and-Tumble World of New Jersey Politics 
SN  - 9780813550763
U1  - 328.73/092 22
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Governors
KW  - New Jersey
KW  - Biography
KW  - Legislators
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Richard J. Codey, undertaker's son, Garden State, August 12, 2004, memoir, local government, state government, political movers and shakers, governor, New Jersey, James McGreevey, resignation, homosexual affair, scandal, circumstances, bizarre, Sopranos, political autobiography, anecdotes, respectability, good politics, good government, tarnished, family, northeastern region
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813550763
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813550763
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780813550763/original
ER  -