Lucinda Franks on Life, Love, and her Marriage to Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau

The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 16, 2014

Lucinda Franks was a self-styled radical who marched with protesters and chained herself to fences. Robert Morgenthau was a famous lawyer, a symbol of the establishment, who could have helped put her in jail. When Franks was 26, she interviewed Manhattan District Attorney Morgenthau for The New York Times in 1973, and he was 53, but the two ended up falling in love and getting married. Franks writes about their relationship and their time together in her memoir Timeless: Love, Morgenthau, and Me.

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