"The book is the story of a governor who, through industry and imagination, turned himself into a model for his contemporaries. But it not told by himself, and it not told in one narrative. It is a collection of essays, and each essay looks at one aspect of his doings as governor. It spans his work in eight years, and covers a wide sweep of his activities. While one essay looks at how he raised the environment into an eye-pleaser, another muses on his handling of the finances, while another periscopes his profile as a politician within the soul of a technocrat."--Back cover.