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From 1956 to 1959, Joe served as a Public Administration intern, writer and researcher on the staff of New York State Governor Averill Harriman. The next several years found him working in Brazil as Foreign Service Officer for the US Information Agency. He was first assigned to Rio de Janeiro in the cultural exchange program, then from 1960-1962 in Buenos Aires as Press Officer and director of the Book Translations Program.
It was back home to New York State in 1962 as a management analyst for the Budget Division and then as an Executive Assistant to the State Health Commission, writing speeches, policy papers, and congressional testimony. In 1966 Joe moved up to become Governor Nelson Rockefeller’s Chief Speechwriter and stayed in this position when he became Vice President. Simultaneously, he began to be noticed for his work with articles in American Heritage like “Vendetta in New Orleans” in 1972 and “The Swine Flu Epidemic” in 1976. The writing of novels and biographies soon followed. Joe’s first book published was My Enemy, My Brother, the story of two brothers during the Civil War. Spiderweb, a novel, was published in 1979. Piercing the Reich: The Penetration of Nazi Germany by American Secret Agents During World War II became the first of a series of Book-of-the-Month selections in 1979. This was followed by a series of biographies starting in 1982 with the biography of Nelson Rockefeller, The Imperial Rockefeller, Edward R. Murrow: An American Original in 1988, and Casey: The Life and Secrets of William J. Casey from the OSS to the CIA in 1990. Most recently his writings include Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial in 1994, which was a made for television movie in July of 2000. He collaborated with General Colin Powell to write My American Journey.
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