Paris: A Love Story (24 page)

I missed Richard every step of the way.

© BILLY BUSTAMANTE

KATI MARTON
is the author of seven books, most recently,
Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America,
a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and the subject of an upcoming motion picture. Her other books include
The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World;
the
New York Times
bestseller
Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History;
Wallenberg; The Polk Conspiracy;
and
A Death in Jerusalem
. She is an award-winning former NPR and ABC News correspondent. She lives in New York City.

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Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America

The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World

Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History

Wallenberg: Missing Hero

A Death in Jerusalem

The Polk Conspiracy

An American Woman

1
Peter had been ABC News anchor once before, in the sixties, before he was ready for it. It was then that he began his apprenticeship as a serious television journalist, covering the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War, before becoming the network’s chief foreign correspondent, based in London.

2
The Polk Conspiracy—Murder and Cover-up in the Case of CBS Correspondent George Polk
(New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990) and
A Death in Jerusalem
(New York: Pantheon, 1994).

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Marton, Kati.

Paris: a love story / Kati Marton.—1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.

p.   cm.

1. Marton, Kati. 2. Women authors, American—Biography. 3. Women journalists—United States—Biography. 4. Paris (France)—Biography. 5. Holbrooke, Richard C., 1941–2010. 6. Jennings, Peter, 1938–2005. I. Title.

PN4874.M198A3 2012

070.92—dc23

[B]      2012016676

ISBN 978-1-4516-9154-2

ISBN 978-1-4516-9156-6 (ebook)

All photos are from the author’s private collection except for the photo of Kati with Barack Obama and the Clintons, which is an Official White House Photo by Pete Souza.