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The Paris Herald, narrative historical fiction, tells the story
of the world's most famous newspaper, focusing on the key years of
the 1960s, when the fates of the newspaper and of the regime of
Charles de Gaulle became curiously intertwined. The story centers on intrigue and rivalry among the "New York
Herald Tribune, New York Times" and "Washington Post." When the
"Herald Tribune" ceased operations in New York in 1966, the
"Times," which had started its own European Edition in 1960,
expected the "Paris Herald" to close, too, giving the Times victory
in Paris as well as New York. But "Herald Tribune"owner Jock
Whitney wouldn't sell to the "Times," preferring to join with
Katharine Graham, who'd taken charge at the "Post" after her
husband's death. Within months, the "Times" came, hat-in-hand, offering to close
its European edition and asking to buy into the new Herald/Post
partnership. The Times neither forgave nor forgot its
humiliation. The Paris Herald is the story of many people: of Frank Draper,
who fought in the Lincoln Brigade; Byron Hallsberg, who joined the
Hungarian uprising; Dennis Klein, researching the Nazi occupation
of Paris; Suzy de Granville, searching for family roots; Wayne
Murray, escaping homophobia; of Steve and Molly Fleming, living the
high life; Sonny Stein and Al Lodge and Connie Marshall and Ben
Swart and Eddie Jones, paperboy, all finding themselves at the
"Paris Herald" for their own reasons and ending up in the fight to
keep the newspaper alive. The 1960s was a tumultuous decade. The conflict in America over
race and the Vietnam War spread to Europe, setting off terrorism,
riots and revolt across the continent and threatening already shaky
regimes. Nowhere was the risk of collapse greater than in France,
where the revolt of 1968 nearly toppled the government and led to
the resignation of President Charles de Gaulle the following year.
Throughout those difficult times, the "Paris Herald" was at the
center of events Since being founded in 1887 by James Gordon Bennett, Jr., the
"Paris Herald" has been essential to American expatriate life in
Europe. In France, many Americans put down roots, married into
French families and became permanent expatriates, in some cases
exiles, like Bennett himself. The tense events of the 1960s touched
the lives of every American in Paris, including many well-known
artistic exiles: James Baldwin, Art Buchwald, William Saroyan,
James Jones, Bud Powell, Dexter Gordon, Kenny Clarke, Joe Turner,
Memphis Slim. As the crisis deepened, one shadowy man became the link between
de Gaulle and the troika of newspaper owners, Whitney, Graham and
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger. This man, Henri de Saint-Gaudens, a high
French official in the Elysee Palace, understood the "Herald's"
historical importance to Paris.
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