Enemies of the People, Kati Marton
Enemies of the People, Kati Marton
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Enemies of the People
My Family's Journey to America

Author: Kati Marton

Narrator: Laural Merlington

Unabridged: 9 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/30/2009

Synopsis

Award-winning journalist Kati Marton set out on a wrenching personal journey to uncover the truth about her parents during her childhood in Cold War Budapest. She exposes the cruel mechanics of the communist state using the secret police files on her parents as well as dozens of interviews that reveal how her family was spied on and betrayed by friends, colleagues, and even their children's babysitter. She learned details of her parents' love affairs and the full nightmare of her parents' incarceration in a communist prison. Marton relates her own eyewitness account of her mother's and father's arrests and the terrible separation that followed. There were things she didn't want to know about and disappointments she didn't want to revisit. But as she dug deeper into their lives, she found the truth about her parents' lives—and her own.

About Kati Marton

Kati Marton is an award-winning former NPR and ABC News correspondent. The recipient of a George Foster Peabody Award for broadcast journalism, she is the author of Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History, a New York Times bestseller; Wallenberg; The Polk Conspiracy; A Death in Jerusalem; and the novel An American Woman. Marton lives in New York with her husband, Richard Holbrooke.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Judy on March 13, 2010

At the beginning of this book, Kati Marton comments that we never really know our parents--this was never more true than in her case. Marton's parents came to the U.S. after fleeing Hungary following the 1956 uprising and as many questions as their two daughters asked, there were few answers. Both p......more

Goodreads review by Julia on June 05, 2010

A totally absorbing read. First of all, Marton could never have written this book without the records contained in the Hungarian Secret Police Archives, and without the assist of the archivist there. So, as an archivist, it makes me proud. But certainly there is more to the value of this story, whic......more

Goodreads review by Jane on January 18, 2011

Kati Marton takes the reader on an exciting journey through her parents' lives behind the Iron Curtain in Hungary--in essentially a memoir format, which mostly works. Marton's educated, worldy parents are writers for AP and UP who speak several languages and had enjoyed mostly privileged upbringings......more

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