Article: JOSEPH PERSICO BREATHES LIFE INTO FIGURES OUT OF THE PAST.(Living Today)

Byline: Janet Trinkaus Television editor

After years of writing other people's copy, Joseph E. Persico decided to take a chance and write under his own name.

The result was "Piercing the Reich," published in 1979 by The Viking Press.

"I was reasonably lucky," the Gloversville native said modestly in a recent interview. "It was a Book-of-the Month selection and had seven foreign editions."

Persico, who lives in Guilderland and winters in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, followed his first outing with "The Imperial Rockefeller," a study of Nelson Rockefeller, for whom he had written speeches for 11 years while governor and then vice ...

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