Morgenthau Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty [Audiobook] [#503698]

Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BH9CXTNL | 2022 | 38 hours and 44 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 991 MB
Author: Andrew Meier
Narrator: Mark Deakins
An "epic and intimate" portrait of four generations of the Morgenthau family, a dynasty of power brokers and public officials with an outsize-and previously unmapped-influence extending from daily life in New York City to the shaping of the American Century. After coming to America from Germany in 1866, the Morgenthaus made history in international diplomacy, in domestic politics, and in America's criminal justice system. With unprecedented, exclusive access to family archives, award-winning journalist and biographer Andrew Meier vividly chronicles how the Morgenthaus amassed a fortune in Manhattan real estate, advised presidents, advanced the New Deal, exposed the Armenian genocide, rescued victims of the Holocaust, waged war in the Mediterranean and Pacific, and, from a foundation of private wealth, built a dynasty of public service. In the words of former mayor Ed Koch, they were "the closest we've got to royalty in New York City."