Guilderland Public Library Press Releases

“Clearly, Lucy was the love of his life.” – Joseph E. Persico

Joseph E. Persico, author of Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial, Piercing the Reich, and many other well-received works, will speak at the Guilderland Public Library on Thursday, July 10, at 7 pm.

He’ll talk about his new work, Franklin & Lucy, about which Charles McGrath observed in a New York Times review, “In an era of well-publicized ‘bimbo eruptions’ and gubernatorial call-girl visits, the main lesson here is one we’ve been taught before: that in the old days politicians — with the help of an obliging press and retinues of discreet enablers — did a better job of keeping their private lives private.”

For more information on Franklin & Lucy, click on this link to the publisher’s site: About Franklin & Lucy.

About Mr. Persico

Famed author Joseph E. Persico will speak about his new book, Franklin & Lucy, at the Guilderland Public Library on July 10, 2008.

Joseph E. Persico is the author of Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage; Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918–World War I and Its Violent Climax; Piercing the Reich; and Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial, which was made into a television docudrama. He also collaborated with Colin Powell on his autobiography, My American Journey. He lives in Guilderland, New York.