In this never-before-told account, Charles Kaiser exhumes the true story of one family’s extraordinary display of courage and great sacrifice for the French Resistance in Nazi occupied Paris during World War II. Through a host of letters, extensive interviews with surviving family members, previously classified documents released at the author’s petition, and correspondence from the French National Archives, Kaiser masterfully reconstructs a suspenseful story of the patriotism and iconoclasm that propelled one Catholic family into an extraordinary sequence of events. Their journey is one marked by immeasurable displays of bravery and duty, and a turn of events that forever shifted the trajectory of their fate. At once personal and sweeping in scope, The Cost of Courage recounts a stirring and accessible history of the French Resistance, reminds of the timeless threat to freedom and humanity exacted by forces of bigotry, and illuminates both the costs to and the power of the individual to enact change.
Charles Kaiser's writing has appeared in New York, The New York Observer, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and Manhattan,inc. among many other publications. He was a founder and former president of the New York chapter of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. He has taught journalism at Columbia and Princeton, where he was the Ferris Professor of Journalism.
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Charles Kaiser's writing has appeared in New York, The New York Observer, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and Manhattan,inc. among many other publications. He was a founder and former president of the New York chapter of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. He has taught journalism at Columbia and Princeton, where he was the Ferris Professor of Journalism.
In this never-before-told account, Charles Kaiser exhumes the true story of one family’s extraordinary display of courage and great sacrifice for the French Resistance in Nazi occupied Paris during World War II. Through a host of letters, extensive interviews with surviving family members, previously classified documents released at the author’s petition, and correspondence from the French National Archives, Kaiser masterfully reconstructs a suspenseful story of the patriotism and iconoclasm that propelled one Catholic family into an extraordinary sequence of events. Their journey is one marked by immeasurable displays of bravery and duty, and a turn of events that forever shifted the trajectory of their fate. At once personal and sweeping in scope, The Cost of Courage recounts a stirring and accessible history of the French Resistance, reminds of the timeless threat to freedom and humanity exacted by forces of bigotry, and illuminates both the costs to and the power of the individual to enact change.
Charles Kaiser's writing has appeared in New York, The New York Observer, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and Manhattan,inc. among many other publications. He was a founder and former president of the New York chapter of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. He has taught journalism at Columbia and Princeton, where he was the Ferris Professor of Journalism.
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Charles Kaiser's writing has appeared in New York, The New York Observer, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and Manhattan,inc. among many other publications. He was a founder and former president of the New York chapter of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. He has taught journalism at Columbia and Princeton, where he was the Ferris Professor of Journalism.
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