![]() ![]() ![]() In Belfast, “I interviewed masked gunmen I would later meet without their masks, in suits and ties, at the Council of Foreign Relations,” she writes in “Paris: A Love Story.” Observing a jarring development and then recounting it in detached, matter-of-fact prose is the journalist’s stock in trade, and that habit is what Marton relies on in this memoir as she grapples with an unexpected new stage of life: widowhood.Īnd so we see her in those dazed weeks before and after Holbrooke’s sudden death, at 69, on Dec. She has been an eyewitness to history in all its cruelty, covering the Ayatollah Khomeini in exile planning his takeover of Iran and “the troubles” in Ireland. She fell in love with and married two famous men, the ABC anchor Peter Jennings and the diplomatic giant Richard Holbrooke, and cheated on them both. ![]() ![]() Kati Marton has lived a thrilling and turbulent life, from her days as a little girl in Budapest, where her journalist parents were imprisoned by the secret police, through her studies at the Sorbonne during the French student uprisings of the late ’60s to a tour of duty as ABC News’s Bonn bureau chief in the 1970s. ![]()
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