Lucinda Franks In Discussion With Dan Rather

In journalist Lucinda Franks' riveting memoir, My Father's Secret War: A Memoir (Miramax Books, 2007), she discovers that the remote, troubled man she grew up with had in fact been a daring spy in World War II- posing as a Nazi SS officer, operating behind enemy lines, and witnessing the liberation of the first concentration camp.

Lucinda Franks and Dan Rather will discuss the book Elie Wiesel calls "a moving suspense story, brilliantly written and suffused with sensitivity and yearning," on March 14 at 7 p.m. at the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. A video presentation will accompany the discussion.

Lucinda Franks is a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist who has written for The New York Times and the New Yorker. Author Joyce Carol Oates said that My Father's Secret War: A Memoir is ""¦an unsparing double portrait of an elusive and mysterious man and the daughter determined to learn the fullest truth about his life."

Dan Rather was anchor and managing editor for the CBS Evening News for 24 years, and is currently global correspondent for Dan Rather Reports on HDNet.

Reception to follow program. Tickets to this event are free. -- www.mjhnyc.org