Asia Society Lunch with Kati Marton, Award-Winning Journalist
VIEW EVENT DETAILSKati Marton's parents, both Hungarian journalists, defied their country's Soviet-controlled secret police during much of the Cold War. During much of the Cold War they were the only Budapest reporters for the two major American wire services until 1955, when they were they arrested and tortured in a Budapest prison. On their release, they came to America. in 1957 with Kati and her sister, Julia. Recently, Hungarian secret police files gave her a trove of source material. The formerly secret files gave a detailed record of her parents' lives and activities in the communist era. More significantly, the files also offer a vivid picture of a police state's corrosive powers. Marton found how friends and professional associates, fearing for their safety, were "turned." As a skilled writer, Marton's dramatic story of her family also gives a vivid account of how Hungarians struggled through a cruel era.
Kati Marton is a former broadcast correspondent who has won awards from NPR and ABC News. She has written six books including Wallenburg, about the Jews who escaped Hitler, and the New York Times bestseller Hidden Power... She is the mother of two children and lives in New York with her husband, Richard Holbrooke. Marton and Holbrooke were recently honored at the Asia Society dinner in New York.
Kati Marton is a former broadcast correspondent who has won awards from NPR and ABC News. She has written six books including Wallenburg, about the Jews who escaped Hitler, and the New York Times bestseller Hidden Power... She is the mother of two children and lives in New York with her husband, Richard Holbrooke. Marton and Holbrooke were recently honored at the Asia Society dinner in New York.
Event Details
Thu 03 Dec 2009
Woman's National Democratic Club, 1526 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington DC
Members $25, nonmembers $30