Mostly Morgenthaus (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry Morgenthau, III
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Family history
- Time of Work: 1815-1991
- Setting: Germany, New York, and Washington, D.C.
- Principal Characters: Henry Morgenthau III (1917- ), Lazarus Morgenthau (1815- 1897), Henry Morgenthau (1856-1946), Henry Morgenthau, Jr
- Genres: Nonfiction, Family literature, Biography
- Subjects: Power, personal or social, Politics, Twentieth century, World War II, Jews or Jewish life, World War I, Holocaust, Jewish, Zionism, Philanthropy or philanthropists, Statesmen, Ethnology
- Locales: New York, Washington, D.C., Germany
When Robert Morgenthau took the oath of office as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York in 1961, he became the third generation of his family to hold a significant political office. His older brother Henry Morgenthau III, in his memoir Mostly Morgenthaus: A Family History, examines the development of this family commitment to public service over the years since his great-grandfather emigrated to the United States from Mannheim, Germany, in 1866 and describes its extraordinary impact on the life and politics of the nation.
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