Gage was an Executive Producer of The Godfather Part III, co-writing an early draft of the script with Mario Puzo. His experiences as a reporter were the basis for the 1977 CBS television show The Andros Targets. During the Watergate scandal, Gage was the first reporter to hear any of the Nixon tapes. He was also instrumental in exposing corruption in the past of Vice President Spiro Agnew, which led to Agnew’s resignation. His acclaimed coverage of the Mafia led to two best-selling books: The Mafia Is Not An Equal Opportunity Employer and Mafia, U.S.A. Gage first achieved fame as an investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. In 1987, Eleni was cited by Ronald Reagan as an inspiration for his summit meetings to end the arms race with the Soviet Union. In 1985, Eleni was made into a feature film starring John Malkovich as Gage. In 1964, Gage earned a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. A Place for Us relates the Gage family’s experiences as immigrants in 1950s America in the city of Worcester, Massachusetts. Decades later, as an adult, Gage sought out those responsible for her death. Gage’s mother, Eleni, was executed for arranging the escape of her children from their Communist-occupied village. Eleni describes the life of his family in Greece during the Second World War and Greek Civil War. He is most known for two books of autobiographical memoirs, the best-selling Eleni (1983) and A Place for Us (1989). Gage was born in the village of Lia in Filiates, Thesprotia, Epirus, Greece.

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