NYT Op Ed: Robert Morgenthau's Greatest Fear: Trump
“Each saw opportunity in the other: The D.A., ever expedient in his drive to fund his favored causes, needed the checks, and the real estate man, ever eager to antagonize a business foe, sought an ally in law enforcement.... The D.A. had a blind spot when it came to Mr. Trump, one he would recognize years later. ”
Andrew Meier, “Before His Death, I Asked the Manhattan D.A. What His Greatest Fear Was. He Answered: ‘Trump.’,” New York Times, March 20, 2023.
The Jerusalem Post: The story of New York City royalty
“In Morgenthau, journalist Andrew Meier draws on exclusive access to family archives to provide a magisterial, informative, engrossing, largely laudatory chronicle of an American dynasty.”
Glenn C. Altschuler, “'Morgenthau': The story of New York City royalty - review,” The Jerusalem Post, January 21, 2023.
The Times of Israel: Interview
“Much of Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty is a New York-based story. The Morgenthaus were, after all, ‘New Yorkers to the core,’ as Meier puts it.
But the author also stresses how the family, over several generations, continued to lend its enormous power and privilege towards worthy — and sometimes unpopular — causes that looked beyond their native city, which they believed would ultimately create lasting historical change in the sphere of national and international politics.”
JP O’Malley, “How the ‘Jewish Kennedys’ helped save 200,000 Jews in WWII and delayed Iranian nukes,” The Times of Israel, January 21, 2023.
‘The Only People They Hit Were Black’: When a Race Riot Roiled New York
Four decades ago, a bat-wielding mob raged through Washington Square Park, leaving dozens injured and one dead. The violence lasted only 10 minutes, but the repercussions persist today.
Andrew Meier, ‘The Only People They Hit Were Black’: When a Race Riot Roiled New York, The New York Times, December 10, 2022. Adapted from Andrew Meier’s book Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty, recently published by Random House.
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.
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.