Me, Governor? Format: Hardcover

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.

Richard J. Codey was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly in 1973 and the State Senate in 1981. He became Senate president in 2004 and served as governor from November 2004 to January 2006. He is married and has two sons. Codey wrote this memoir with the assistance of Stephen Seplow, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and former reporter and editor for the Philadelphia Inquirer.