Dina McGreevey may want to tell her story, but its her ghost-writer who's doing all the talking. Fordham University professor Elizabeth Stone recently read from Jim McGreevey's former beard's forthcoming, Silent Partner: A Memoir of My Marriage.

In the excerpt, McGreevey reflects on "writing" the marital memoir:

It has for me been a healing venture. It allowed me to move on with my life. It is my conviction that others can survive as well. This is my story about my experience as I lived it at the moment - and not quite the same thing - about my experience as I look back on it. Tell others your story as I tell you mine. Don't let others tell it for you.

Stone describes writing the "recollection" of the McGreevey's sham marriage as "a complicated process to elicit recollections and emotions from a woman who was frequently seen but rarely heard," according to The Star-Ledger. And so it should be. Jim McGreevey lied to his perpetually confused wife wife for ten years and, according to Stone, he may be lying to the nation. Stone says, "He's really a bisexual American, but it didn't have the same panache". A politician lying about being gay for publicity? The 21st century's crazy!

Stoner also compares McGreevey to Mona Lisa - a bit of a backward comparison, we think. Leonardo da Vinci's classic painting has perplexed scholars for years. Dina McGreevey, meanwhile - she's just perplexed (see book's cover).

Dina McGreevey is busy healing [The Star-Ledger]