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"engaging memoir… brave, highly personal…. A love story in a political context: the great events in New York’s life in the last 40 years, observed by a sharp reporter from a privileged perch." —The New York Times Book Review
"[T]he book chronicles not only a marriage but an era." —Boston Globe
"This fascinating personal and political history has a great love story at its heart." —MORE Magazine
"[An] earnest and candid memoir." —Denver Post
"Timeless has something for everyone—sections custom-made for lawyers, for historians, lovers, psychologists and more . . . We are blessed to have this full accounting of Franks’ [marriage]." —The Buffalo News
"wondrously moving work. . . . Franks writes passionately of this ‘love of two eccentrics’ . . . in her rather miraculous story of a transcendent love that is imperiled only the specter of mortality." —Publishers Weekly"Franks’ chiseled prose demonstrates her chops as a veteran journalist... The boldface names give the book curb appeal, but this memoir’s hidden strength is its testimony to the beauty and difficulty of a long-term marriage." —Kirkus"A tender portrait of devotion. . .This is an intimate and revealing look at a high-profile couple, nurturing and supporting each other in a swirl of New York politics, media, marriage, and family." —Booklist"Happy families may be all alike, as Tolstoy has remarked, but happy marriages are not, as Lucinda Franks allows us to know in this beautifully composed, painfully candid, and often very funny double portrait of the author (Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, writer, radical activist) and Robert Morgenthau (legendary District Attorney of Manhattan for thirty-five years), who were married in defiance of nearly everyone who knew them after Franks, a young woman of twenty-six, met Morgenthau, a widower of fifty-three. Timeless is something of a defiant memoir as well, yet it also brims with tenderness, good humor, and a good deal of inside information about a number of Morgenthau’s most famous criminal cases, including something of the background of 9/11. As an intimate depiction of an unusual marriage, Timeless is unique; yet, in its delineation of the ever-shifting contours of married love, it is universal and archetypal—indeed, ‘timeless.’" —Joyce Carol Oates"This book is a treasure: a shining love story, a fascinating slice of history, a paean to an extraordinary man. And a terrific read—honest, funny, daring, and beautifully wrought." —Francine Klagsbrun, author and columnist for The Jewish Week"It’s rare for a book this candid and revealing to be so well written. The combination makes this a marvelous memoir, one with honesty and exuberance that are unforgettable. With a reporter’s eye for detail and the narrative talents of a novelist, Lucinda Franks brings alive a love story, a behind-the-scenes look at a high-profile marriage, and the inside secrets of headline-connected criminal investigations. This is a book you don’t want to put down, one you will wish were longer when you finish it." —Dan Rather, newscaster and author of Rather Outspoken"There is a surprise on almost every page of this book. It is a remarkably intimate tale of passion and politics, of growing old and staying young. Lucinda Franks’s life and love will engage you as fully as those of a great fictional heroine. And my guess is, by the end, you will turn the last page and shed tears of satisfaction." —Chris Wallace, Emmy Award–winning political journalist and anchor of Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace
About the Author
Lucinda Franks is the author of a memoir, My Father’s Secret War. A former staff writer for The New York Times, she has also written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the life and death of Diana Oughton, a member of Weatherman. A graduate of Vassar College, Franks lives in New York City with her husband, the former longtime District Attorney for New York County Robert M. Morgenthau.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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L. Swift
on August 23, 2014
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I have rarely enjoyed any book more than I enjoyed this. This is the story of a much-admired public couple who have shared a front row seat to history. Despite her Pulitzer Prize, and his 40 years as one of the most powerful law enforcement figures in the United States, we have known little, until now, about their extraordinary marriage. Despite his tough demeanor, Bob Morgenthau is a 95 year old hottie, with seven kids and a soft heart. Although this marriage seems unusually passionate given the state of marriage today, I buy it, and I suggest it to anyone who loves high end name-dropping, headline-making criminal trials, and the most unlikely marriage on the face of the earth. She was a journalist with radical politics in her twenties, and he was the District Attorney of Manhattan, a widower in his mid-Fifties, when they met. Best of all, it reads like a dream, because the author seems to care almost as much about writing as she does about her husband. Her lyrical writing style is a pleasure to read; I just loved this book. My husband, who loves crime and the gritty city, enjoys a good read, and he is loving it too.
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“It is always complex to write about someone you love. I am fortunate to have a husband who allowed me to do this: to talk about the personal life that he has kept so private during his forty-five years as a public figure; to divulge the unknown stories behind his major cases; to reveal the intimacies… His was an act of love, and it is in tribute to him that this book is written.” TIMELESS by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lucinda Franks is a remarkably open, intimate look at a long-range marriage of a couple who live in the rarified air of money and fame.
I’m glad Franks offers such a long prologue; it’s an explanation I would have been searching for if I had just started reading the book without seeing this first. After the recounting of her life as a ’60s revolutionary and Morgenthau’s staid, proper life as an upstanding attorney from an upstanding super wealthy family, the following information would have made me even more uncomfortable: “I cover your mouth, muffling your chatter, and plant little kisses down your belly.” I’m sorry, did someone sneak a copy of 50 SHADES OF GREY into my TIMELESS book jacket? Nope, it’s just Franks telling us how much she loves having sex with her husband. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but…
My brother worked with Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. It is difficult to put the visage of his lined, serious face topped with white hair together with his wife’s remembrances of his tender embraces and their lovemaking among the cliffs of Martha’s Vineyard beaches. It is hard to imagine any prominent legal mind allowing his or her journalist spouse to expose such personal details about their life together.Read more ›
I’m glad Franks offers such a long prologue; it’s an explanation I would have been searching for if I had just started reading the book without seeing this first. After the recounting of her life as a ’60s revolutionary and Morgenthau’s staid, proper life as an upstanding attorney from an upstanding super wealthy family, the following information would have made me even more uncomfortable: “I cover your mouth, muffling your chatter, and plant little kisses down your belly.” I’m sorry, did someone sneak a copy of 50 SHADES OF GREY into my TIMELESS book jacket? Nope, it’s just Franks telling us how much she loves having sex with her husband. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but…
My brother worked with Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. It is difficult to put the visage of his lined, serious face topped with white hair together with his wife’s remembrances of his tender embraces and their lovemaking among the cliffs of Martha’s Vineyard beaches. It is hard to imagine any prominent legal mind allowing his or her journalist spouse to expose such personal details about their life together.Read more ›
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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on August 28, 2014
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This is a very strange book. It leaves every thread hanging. It appears to be a memorial for someone who is still alive. I had to check myself. He is still alive. Perhaps the author didn't want to hurt her husband or children's feelings. She also seems oddly non-reflective. During their first dinner party her beloved husband (after being coaxed to marry her and gives in) berates her for spending too much money on canapés. He goes on and on. Now this would really have done it for me. The author takes herself in hand and never spends anything again. Is he that much of a prize? She watches every penny she tells us. Or is she trying to tell us she didn't marry him for his money. There are many little passages in this book like this. Marriage made in heaven? She won a Pulitzer. She has a standing job on the New York Times. Why grovel? Its impossible to figure this out.
In case you thought it was sex. She says that was hot but she tells us that when they couldn't have kids their relationship was on the rocks. Then she announces in the middle of the book her husband wouldn't touch her once she got cancer and this went on for two years. He basically stopped talking to her and didn't visit her. A therapist told her it was PSD. She runs home to tell her husband. He agreed in one dialogue. He had a background of trauma. I will give him that. However, he says he married someone to take care of him. He didn't want to take care of her. Well he's honest.
At a dinner party (who knows what they ate) they invite famous people. Bill and Hillary Clinton came. Hillary has tears in her eyes when she hears Diana died. The author takes her hand. Hillary later blesses this author by asking her along on a trip to Africa for a private "interview".Read more ›
In case you thought it was sex. She says that was hot but she tells us that when they couldn't have kids their relationship was on the rocks. Then she announces in the middle of the book her husband wouldn't touch her once she got cancer and this went on for two years. He basically stopped talking to her and didn't visit her. A therapist told her it was PSD. She runs home to tell her husband. He agreed in one dialogue. He had a background of trauma. I will give him that. However, he says he married someone to take care of him. He didn't want to take care of her. Well he's honest.
At a dinner party (who knows what they ate) they invite famous people. Bill and Hillary Clinton came. Hillary has tears in her eyes when she hears Diana died. The author takes her hand. Hillary later blesses this author by asking her along on a trip to Africa for a private "interview".Read more ›
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on August 25, 2014
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This book combines a novelist's talent for telling a story and a reporter's scrupulous for chronicling events. But most of all, the book describes an unlikely and unusual long- term love- affair lived against the background conflicts of history and family. Both Morganthau and Frank readily overcame the 30 year age difference; however, family and friends were not as flexible.
I found myself revisiting moments in national and local news, such as JFK's emerging administration, the McCarthy hearings, and NYC corruption. Throughout the book, Franks inextricably blends original and often poetic descriptions of her personal story with incisive views of history. I found myself taking breaks from my reading to delight in the unique expressions of a remarkably talented and insightful writer.
But above all, this book tells a compelling and daring love story between New York's powerful and relentless District Attorney and the woman who won his heart. Ultimately, the love in "Morganthau and Me" is not only just timeless, but also ageless.
I found myself revisiting moments in national and local news, such as JFK's emerging administration, the McCarthy hearings, and NYC corruption. Throughout the book, Franks inextricably blends original and often poetic descriptions of her personal story with incisive views of history. I found myself taking breaks from my reading to delight in the unique expressions of a remarkably talented and insightful writer.
But above all, this book tells a compelling and daring love story between New York's powerful and relentless District Attorney and the woman who won his heart. Ultimately, the love in "Morganthau and Me" is not only just timeless, but also ageless.
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