BOSTON (AP) — Gov. Deval Patrick considered resigning just weeks after he was first elected in 2007 as his wife battled depression.
Patrick writes in his soon to be released memoir "A Reason to Believe" that his wife, Diane, weeping and unable to sleep, had been admitted to a psychiatric hospital and the couple was dreading four years in the public eye.
The Democrat was re-elected to a second term in November.
In an uncorrected proof obtained by The Boston Globe, Patrick also reveals that he failed the bar exam twice, and that he and his wife were rejected by The Country Club in Brookline.
Most of the book dwells on his early life and his rise from poverty on the South Side of Chicago. He also discusses his friendship with President Barack Obama.
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