Joseph E. Persico (1930–2014)
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Was a contributing writer for Colin Powell's My American Journey. He also wrote Piercing the Reich, which is about the penetration of Nazi Germany by American Agents, and Nuremburg, which was made into a major television docudrama. (Publisher Provided) Joseph E. Persico was born in Gloversville, visa mer New York on July 19, 1930. He graduated from the New York State College for Teachers in 1952 and entered the Navy, serving aboard a minesweeper during the Korean War. Before becoming a speechwriter for Nelson A. Rockefeller, he worked for the United States Information Agency in Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, and Washington. He stopped working for Rockefeller in 1977. During his lifetime, he wrote 12 books including The Imperial Rockefeller, Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage, and Franklin and Lucy: President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the Other Remarkable Women in His Life. He co-wrote My American Journey: An Autobiography with Colin L. Powell. Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial was adapted into an Emmy-winning TNT mini-series in 2000. He died after a long illness on August 30, 2014 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Foto taget av: Joseph E. Persico Papers. M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives, University at Albany Libraries, State University of New York
Verk av Joseph E. Persico
Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918 World War I and Its Violent Climax (2004) 361 exemplar
Franklin and Lucy : President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the other remarkable women in his life (2008) 296 exemplar
Roosevelt's Centurions: FDR and the Commanders He Led to Victory in World War II (2013) 157 exemplar
Die Späte Infiltration des OSS-CIA im Nazi-Deutschland 1945: Dokument Klassischer Geheimdienst (1987) 2 exemplar
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MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1990 (1990) — Author "Casey's German Gamble" — 10 exemplar
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 1994 (1994) — Author "The Guilt of Alfred Jodl" — 10 exemplar
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 2008 (2008) — Author "FDR Sees the Elephant" — 8 exemplar
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- Vedertaget namn
- Persico, Joseph E.
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Persico, Joseph Edward
- Födelsedag
- 1930-07-19
- Avled
- 2014-08-30
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Land (för karta)
- USA
- Födelseort
- Gloversville, New York, USA
- Dödsort
- Albany, New York, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Guilderland, New York, USA
- Utbildning
- State University of New York, Albany (New York State College for Teachers ∙ BA ∙ English and Political Science ∙ 1952)
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- military officer (United States Navy)
speechwriter (Nelson Rockefeller)
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historian
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- United States Navy
United States Information Agency
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