NYT Book Review: Editors’ Choice: New Books We Recommend This week
“This elegant saga [Andrew Meier’s Morgenthau], the fruit of patient archival research and hundreds of interviews, traces in fascinating detail the rise of an illustrious New York Jewish family from 19th-century Bavaria to 20th-century politics.”
“9 New Books We Recommend This Week,” Book Review, Editors’ Choice, New York Times, October 27, 2022.
Book Passage: Andrew Meier with Liesl Schillinger
“Andrew Meier with Liesl Schillinger, Morgenthau | Conversations with Authors,” Book Passage TV, YouTube, October 20, 2022.
WNYC: The History of the Morgenthau Family
“The Morgenthau family made a mark on every corner of the city, from real estate to politics to the judicial system. Author Andrew Meier joins us to discuss his new, comprehensive history, Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty.”
“The History of the Morgenthau Family,” All Of It with Alison Stewart, WNYC, October 20, 2022.
TIME: IDEAS Features Excerpt from Morgenthau
“BOBBY KENNEDY, the youngest Attorney General that the country had seen since 1814, came into the Department of Justice with a battle plan.
…’Bob Kennedy,’ as those who knew him best often called RFK, intended to fight a long campaign. ‘Bob planned a war,’ Jack Miller, his Criminal Division chief, would say, ‘and Morgy’ — the nickname Robert M. Morgenthau had acquired among the Kennedy men — ‘was going to be central to it.’”
Andrew Meier, “How JFK's Death Hurt Bobby Kennedy's War Against the Mafia,” Ideas, TIME, October 14, 2022.
FT: A window into a powerful, privileged world that most Americans can only dream of
“An epic account of a New York dynasty and its rise to political influence.
Andrew Meier has pulled all of these lives together into a single American family saga, much like those written about the Rockefellers, Morgans and Kennedys…[T]he depth of the reporting is impressive…
A window into a powerful, privileged world that most Americans can only dream of.”
Brooke Masters, “Morgenthau by Andrew Meier — power, privilege and the making of modern America,” Best Books of the Week, Financial Times, September 28, 2022.
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.