New York author, Rockefeller speechwriter Persico dies

GUILDERLAND: A best-selling author, historian and speechwriter for then — New York gov Nelson A Rockefeller has died. Joseph Persico was 84.

His wife, Sylvia Persico, says he died on Saturday at a hospital in Albany after a long illness.

Persico published 12 books including biographies of Rockefeller, Colin Powell, Edward R Murrow, CIA director William Casey and President Franklin Roosevelt. He was selected to write the words etched in granite at the National World War II Memorial: "Here we mark the price of freedom."

His book "Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial" was made into a miniseries on Turner Network Television.

Persico was a Navy veteran. He lived in the Albany suburb Guilderland. He will have a private burial service at the National Cemetery in Schuylerville.

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