Lucinda Franks Morgenthau, author of “Timeless: Love, Morgenthau, and Me,” will share her new memoir at a Northern Virginia j.talks event on Thursday, Dec. 4. J.talks, conversations with authors and artists, is a program of the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lucinda Franks interviewed Robert Morgenthau, and before she walked out his door the two had fallen in love with each other. Morgenthau was one of the most prominent Jews in America, son of FDR’s Treasury Secretary and now New York’s iconoclastic District Attorney — and he was twice Lucinda’s age.
The memoir is an intimate story of their 35-year marriage, in which Lucinda and Robert shared early success, a love of Jewish culture, a visceral horror of the Holocaust, and a determination to build the city’s first Holocaust museum. The couple took trips to Israel, where they visited with Ariel Sharon and various well-known figures, and became passionately pro-Israel: Lucinda would write stories for The New York Times about these visits and Robert worked with Mossad connections to apprehend worldwide terrorists and the white collar criminals that funded them. The memoir is told in a novelistic style, bringing the reader on a journey through their lives filled with criminals, corporate crooks, the great, and the rich and the famous: it is a story of the adventures, the challenges, and always, the humor.
Lucinda Franks Morgenthau will talk about her book “Timeless: Love, Morgenthau and Me” on Thursday, Dec. 4 at noon. This program is in partnership with the JCCNV’s Adult Services Department. General admission tickets are $12 ($6 for current J members). The event will be held at the JCCNV, 8900 Little River Turnpike in Fairfax. JCCNV Cultural Arts programming is partially funded by the JCCNV Arts Fund, and the Arts Council of Fairfax County, supported by Fairfax County.
For more information about Northern Virginia j.talks, visit www.jccnvarts.org or call the box office at 703-537-3000.