Book 47 of 26 -- The Confession by James McGreevey

Much like Michael Jackson or the Backstreet Boys, this book falls into the category of ... someone is buying The Confession by former Governor of New Jersey, James McGreevey, but no one seems to be confessing to it. Muh wife and I bought the book and I was the lucky person who got to read it first.

McGreevey made the rounds for the book and sold it as a "Confession" of sorts. I say of sorts because he sold the book as a confession of his homosexuality that he kept hidden for many years. I challenge this.



There is very little homosexual stuff in the book. The book focusses on a different kind of confession -- his political confessions -- admitting how he sold his soul to move ahead in the political world.

Yeah... there were the expected internal battles explanations of how he dealt with his homosexuality, but the meaty and juiciest parts of the book are when he describes how he worked significant pieces of legislation through. The compromises he had to make. The people he had to assuade. The changes that needed to be made. The demands he forced on others.

The book itself isn't that interesting until he runs for governor the first time. The first 75 pages or so is standard biography stuff told through rose colored glasses. It is self serving and boring. The rest of the book is on the intriguing side, but nothing earth shattering.

Enjoy the Confession. It's a confession of ppay to play politics more than a confession of a hidden homosexual living in a heterosexual world.