{"product_id":"timeless-9780374535292","title":"Timeless","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this beautifully rendered literary memoir, Lucinda Franks, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, tells the intimate story of her marriage to Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, one of the great men of our time. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Words by the millions have been printed about you, but none have revealed your real life, your secret life--which is that you belong to me.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter Lucinda interviewed Bob for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003ein 1973, the two took a while to understand that they had fallen in love. Franks was a self-styled radical who marched with protesters and chained herself to fences. Morgenthau was a famous lawyer, a symbol of the establishment, who could have helped put her in jail. She was twenty-six. He was fifty-three. Now, thirty-six years into a marriage that was never supposed to happen, one between two people as deeply in love as they are different, they are living proof that opposites can forge an unbreakable life bond. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTimeless\u003c\/i\u003e, Franks offers a confidential tour of their unconventional years together, years that are both hilarious and interlaced with suspense. At the same time, she takes us behind the scenes to reveal the untold stories behind some of Morgenthau's most famous cases, many of which she helped him brainstorm for. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA compelling memoir with piercing insights into how a relationship grows and develops over a lifetime, \u003ci\u003eTimeless \u003c\/i\u003egrants us an enlightening window into one of New York's most famous yet defiant and iconoclastic couples, and the trials and successes of their union.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLucinda Franks\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of a memoir, \u003ci\u003eMy Father's Secret War\u003c\/i\u003e. A former staff writer for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, she has also written for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the life and death of Diana Oughton, a member of the Weathermen. A graduate of Vassar College, Franks lives in New York City. Her husband, the former longtime district attorney for New York County Robert M. Morgenthau, died in 2019.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martins Press-3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844401631506,"sku":"9780374535292","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4a2f351e-b11f-4dd7-b30d-2cb69439a4eb.jpg?v=1737318941","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/timeless-9780374535292","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}