A frightening glimpse at the mind of Andrew Cuomo, makes you want to run away......

not qualified to be president, lacking in the integrity department

a loudmouth bully and a tough guy

Andrew Cuomo's split from Kerry Kennedy spawned a torrent of headlines more than a decade ago, but a forthcoming biography of the governor reveals that the marriage was doomed far earlier and the breakup was far uglier than previously known.

The couple imploded in 2003 amid a raft of allegations of adultery on Kennedy's
part — but the wheels were already coming off the union of two political dynasties, immortalized as "Cuomolot," just months after the 1997 birth of the couple's third child, according to Michael Shnayerson's "The Contender."

Cuomo's controlling ways — and his disdain for everything from his wife's

housekeeping to her family and friends — contributed to the downfall of the union, Shnayerson writes in the biography slated for release March 31.

Clocking in at about 450 pages, "The Contender" sifts through Cuomo’s pugilistic political past in detail, although the book’s overarching theme is his future, including as a potential White House candidate, however unlikely that seems for 2016.

Clocking in at about 450 pages, "The Contender" sifts through Cuomo's pugilistic political past in detail, although the book's overarching theme is his future, including as a potential White House candidate, however unlikely that seems for 2016.

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By the time the couple's now 17-year-old daughter Michaela was only two months old, Vanity Fair scribe Shnayerson reports, citing unnamed sources, the Cuomo-Kennedy talk of divorce centered on not whether they should split up, "but when."

At the start of the relationship in the late '80's, glamorized in reams of interviews, Kennedy "did roll her eyes a bit" when she saw the plastic covers the neat-freak Cuomo kept on his furniture, Shnayerson writes, citing a source. But Kennedy, who had recently lost the boyfriend she'd dated since her days at Brown University and planned to wed, soon fell for the "big, strong, protective" Cuomo.

He proposed with an emerald-cut diamond ring on Valentine's Day 1990.

Kennedy was rattled by how her fiance began planning their wedding like it was a political campaign — and her kin were "astonished" when Cuomo ruled the reception would have none of the "irreverent" toasts they traditionally enjoyed, according to "The Contender."

Andrew Cuomo (right, pictured in 2000) reveals that the end of his marriage to Kerry Kennedy (left) was happening far earlier than had been previously known.(Hamburg, Harry)

Although enamored of his Kennedy connection — and unafraid to capitalize on it to get press — Cuomo "hated" the legendary family get-togethers at the Kennedy's Hyannis compound and stopped going entirely at one point, Shnayerson writes.

The author quotes a member of the clan, Douglas Kennedy, describing Cuomo as "looking disgusted" as the Kennedys gloried in a night of singing in which he refused to take part.

"The Contender" also quotes Doug Kennedy calling Cuomo a suspicious "bully" who interpreted any attempt at Kennedy family graciousness as either weak or "political."

Even as they were lauded as a glamorous Washington power couple — Cuomo was then-President Bill Clinton's housing secretary, and Kennedy was pursuing her human-rights advocacy — the pair had "little in the way of fun" with each other at home, according to the bio.

Shnayerson quotes a family friend — he doesn't say if the pal is on the Cuomo or Kennedy side — as saying Cuomo was less than impressed with his wife's cooking and cleaning, particularly compared to his mother Matilda's home-making. He considered Kennedy a "dowdy" dresser.

Cuomo, according to the book, also disapproved of Kennedy's circle so deeply that not many of its members could score a dinner invite to the couple's home in McLean, Va.

By the time the couple’s now 17-year-old daughter Michaela was only two months old, Vanity Fair scribe Michael Shnayerson reports, citing unnamed sources, the Cuomo-Kennedy talk of divorce centered on not whether they should split up, "but when."(SHAWN BALDWIN/AP)

Among those denied entree to the inner sanctum, according to Shnayerson, Kennedy's best friend, Mary Richardson, who would later marry Robert Kennedy Jr. (The two later also divorced; Richardson hanged herself in a barn behind their Westchester home in 2012.)

Kennedy believed many of the marriage's problems might have been eased or averted if Cuomo had been willing to spend more time with the families — "particularly her own" — but her husband wasn't willing, the book says.

The "Cuomolot" union was on the skids by the time the ambitious son of Queens geared up for his abortive 2002 run for governor. Still, Kennedy agreed to stick by him during the campaign.

There was no shortage of tense and painful moments: At the Manhattan party considered the informal launch of Cuomo's campaign, the Kennedy clan was aghast to hear "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Rolling Stones played at "rousing volume," Shnayerson writes.

The Kennedys, who had lost two of their loved ones to assassins' bullets, listened, "disbelieving," Shnayerson details, as the sound system spewed Mick Jagger's famous lines: "I shouted out, 'Who killed the Kennedys?' / When after all, it was you and me." They wondered if Cuomo had chosen to play it, the bio says.

Kennedy wanted to dissolve the marriage after the campaign — Cuomo dropped out of the primary in disgrace — but "The Contender" asserts he pleaded with his wife to hang on a little longer.

Kennedy wanted to dissolve the marriage after the campaign — Cuomo dropped out of the primary in disgrace — but "The Contender" asserts he pleaded with his wife to hang on a little longer.(SUZANNE PLUNKETT/AP)

When Cuomo later confronted Kennedy about her liaison with polo player Bruce Colley, Shnayerson writes, she was having none of it. The author quotes a "close observer" reporting that Kennedy told Cuomo to mind his own business, tell the children the marriage was over, and get out of the house.

The Cuomo camp at first stuck to a terse statement about an "amicable" split. That barely lasted a day — owing, according to Shnayerson, to a Cuomo "family meeting" that resulted in Cuomo's attorney getting a green light to tell the world Kennedy had "betrayed" her husband.

"The Contender" suggests the bad blood between Cuomo and his ex continued to manifest itself long after the divorce, including when Kennedy got pulled over for drugged driving in 2012 and was prosecuted by Westchester County DA Janet DiFiore, described as a Cuomo ally.

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Although Kennedy was acquitted in the incident, in which she said she'd gotten behind the wheel after accidentally taking Ambien instead of her thyroid meds, Shnayerson quotes Kennedy's brother, Douglas, as opining that Cuomo would spend the rest of his days "trying to take her down."

Andrew Cuomo with girlfriend Sandra Lee.(CARLO ALLEGRI/REUTERS)

Shnayerson's work, which notes that Cuomo never sat down with him for an interview — in spite of "indications right up until the end" that he would — also dedicates considerable time to the governor's relationship with his late father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo. Some of the highlights:

-Cuomo pressed his father to make himself available to Clinton for nomination to the Supreme Court, not only for the honor of the position, but, according to sources, to get the elder Cuomo out of the way and clear the son's own road to independent prominence;

-Andrew Cuomo felt 'molten resentment' after his father was repeatedly blocked from entering Ground Zero on the morning of the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks;

-Throughout his life, Andrew Cuomo would try to attain, but never feel he'd earned, his father's "unconditional" love, and may have been as liberated as he was bereaved by the elder Cuomo's death.