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Persico, Joseph Edward was born on July 19, 1930 in Gloversville, New York, United States. Son of Thomas Louis and Blanche (Perrone) Persico.
(The Nuremberg trials remain, after nearly a half a centur...)
The Nuremberg trials remain, after nearly a half a century, the benchmark for judging international crimes. Using new sources--ground-breaking research in the papers of the Nuremberg prison psychiatrist and commandant, the letters and journals of the prisoners, and accounts of the judges and prosecutors as they struggled through each day making compromises and steeling their convictions--Joseph Persico retells the story of Nuremberg, combining sweeping history with psychological insight. Here are brilliant, chilling portraits of the Nazi warlords and riveting descriptions of the tensions between law and vengeance, between East and West, and of the friction already present in the early stages of the Cold War.
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Joseph Persico presents us with a sparkling story of American Intelligence triumphant - the penetration of Hitler's Reich by no less than 200 U.S. agents. This book is a truly remarkable story of blue- and red-bloods practising the old black art, espionage, in circumstances of hideous danger. - Anthony Cave Brown, author of Bodyguard of Lies
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Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965) is credited with virtually inventing modern radio and television journalism. He served in turn as CBS's European director, war correspondent, vice president and director of public affairs, news analyst, producer and broadcaster of the groundbreaking "See It Now" and "Person to Person" television programmes, and director of the US Information Agency. His name became synonymous with quality, courage and integrity in broadcast journalism. Whether reporting from the rooftops of London during the Blitz and at the gates of Buchenwald at the war's end, or exposing Senator Joseph McCarthy on "See It Now", Murrow's broadcasts shaped the way the American public viewed the world. This biography reveals the events behind his provocative reporting, and the inner life of the legendary journalist.
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Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918 World War I ...
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(November 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension a...)
November 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in World War I. The Allied generals knew the fighting would end precisely at 11:00 A.M, yet in the final hours they flung men against an already beaten Germany. The result? Eleven thousand casualties suffered–more than during the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Why? Allied commanders wanted to punish the enemy to the very last moment and career officers saw a fast-fading chance for glory and promotion. Joseph E. Persico puts the reader in the trenches with the forgotten and the famous–among the latter, Corporal Adolf Hitler, Captain Harry Truman, and Colonels Douglas MacArthur and George Patton. Mainly, he follows ordinary soldiers’ lives, illuminating their fate as the end approaches. Persico sets the last day of the war in historic context with a gripping reprise of all that led up to it, from the 1914 assassination of the Austrian archduke, Franz Ferdinand, which ignited the war, to the raw racism black doughboys endured except when ordered to advance and die in the war’s last hour. Persico recounts the war’s bloody climax in a cinematic style that evokes All Quiet on the Western Front, Grand Illusion, and Paths of Glory. The pointless fighting on the last day of the war is the perfect metaphor for the four years that preceded it, years of senseless slaughter for hollow purposes. This book is sure to become the definitive history of the end of a conflict Winston Churchill called “the hardest, cruelest, and least-rewarded of all the wars that have been fought.” From the Hardcover edition.
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Publisher: Ballantine Books Date of Publication: 1979 Binding: paperback Edition: First Ballantine Books Edition Condition: Good + Description: World War II. Black and white photographs of that era. A nice, clean and unmarked copy. 464 pp.
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"Persico tells his story brilliantly. No one has written a book like this about Nelson Rockefeller before." New York Times "This book has the quality of fireside reminiscences, of brave days past. The reader finishes it feeling that he knows, with some intimacy, a central, towering figure." The New Republic "An excellent biography, a portrait of a complex individual by a sensitive observer. Persico has captured Rockefeller brilliantly." Publishers Weekly
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( In July 1863 the invading Army of Northern Virginia, co...)
In July 1863 the invading Army of Northern Virginia, confident from its victory at Chancellorsville, unexpectedly encountered the Army of the Potomac, still without a general Lincoln could trust, at a small town in Pennsylvania. And there, among the verdant hills, rich fields, and sparkling brooks around Gettysburg, the two armies slaughtered each other in fearful numbers. My Enemy, My Brother is a remarkable re-creation of that battle, told not as military strategists have told it, but the way soldiers, doctors, shopkeepers, farmers, and wives lived it. Drawn from the letters, diaries, and memoirs of the people at Gettysburg, Persico's powerful work chronicles the passions and beliefs, the day-to-day routines, the pain and the terror of those caught up in the epic conflict that, for thousands, became their last role on earth.
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"A vivid reconstruction of the actions of the wartime allies and the Nazi elite at Nuremberg. Persico eaily carries us into a deeper understanding of the trials."—New York Newsday.
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Persico, Joseph Edward was born on July 19, 1930 in Gloversville, New York, United States. Son of Thomas Louis and Blanche (Perrone) Persico.
Bachelor of Arts, State University of New York-Albany, 1952; Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), State University of New York-Albany, 1996; postgraduate, Columbia University, 1955.
From 1974 to 1977, he was primary speechwriter to Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. At the time of his death, he lived in Guilderland, New New York His book Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial tells the story of the Nuremberg Trials.
lieutenant was adapted for television as the docudrama Nuremberg.
In 1952 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Political Science from the New York State College for Teachers (now the University at Albany). Following graduation, he joined the United States. Navy where he served as a Lieutenant (junior grade) aboard a minesweeper and also worked at North Atlantic Treaty Organization Headquarters Naples, Italy.
After three years, he left the Navy and joined Governor West. Averell Harriman as a writer and researcher In 1960, Persico joined the United States Information Agency working in Argentina, Brazil, and Washington as a Foreign Service Officer.
From 1963 until 1966, he served as Executive Assistant to the New York State Health Commissioner and in 1966 became the chief speechwriter for then Governor of New York Nelson A. Rockefeller.
He remained Rockefeller"s primary speechwriter throughout the latter"s Vice Presidency. Persico died at his home in Guilderland on August 30, 2014. He was buried at Gerald B. H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery in Schuylerville, New New York
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Served to lieutenant (junior grade) United States Navy, 1952-1955. Member of Council Foreign Relations, Authors Guild, Inc.
Married Sylvia La Vista, May 23, 1959. Children: Vanya, Andrea.