The governor speaks with Amy Chozick about his new book, his failed 2002 election bid and the Moreland Commission.

Your new book, ''All Things Possible,'' is much more personal than your last. Did that make it tough to write? Yeah. Revisiting the good is exhilarating; revisiting the bad is exhausting. But I wanted to communicate that just because you suffer a loss, even though it may seem damning at that moment, very few things are ultimately damning.

You write a lot about the media, starting with your first experience in Albany working for your father, Mario, when he was governor. Back then, reporters called you the Prince of Darkness. New York has a reputation for really tenacious, no-holds-barred reporters. We have a tenacious press corps, and it is much more rough-and-tumble than politics in many other states.

You also write that there are ultimately more negatives than positives to being a famous politician's son. Why? I wouldn't trade my father or our experiences for anything. But politically, it's a negative,...