POLITICO: Morgenthau Excerpt is the Friday Read
This week’s Friday Read at POLITICO features an excerpt from Morgenthau.
“On June 19, 1939, over lunch at the White House, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr. attempted something he was loathe to do: He prodded his best friend. ‘A year has passed,’ he told Franklin D. Roosevelt, ‘and we have not got anywhere on this Jewish refugee thing. What are we going to do about it?’”
Andrew Meier, “‘The God-Damnedest Thing’: The Antisemitic Plot to Thwart U.S. Aid to Europe’s Jews and the Man Who Exposed It,” Friday Reads, POLITICO, September 23, 2022.
Kirkus: Starred Review
“A family’s history chronicles the history of the nation.
Journalist and biographer Meier draws on hundreds of hours of interviews and prodigious archival research to craft an absorbing narrative following four generations of one of America’s most prominent families.…
A majestic, authoritative multigenerational saga.”
“MORGENTHAU,” Kirkus Starred Review, July 27, 2022.
Publishers Weekly: Starred Review
“Meier’s narrative mixes political drama… with colorful family melodrama…. It’s also a vivid panorama of the New York that made the Morgenthaus…. The result is a fascinating family portrait on the grandest scale. ”
“Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty,” Publishers Weekly Starred Review, June 28, 2022.