WE have been privileged to peek at what is undoubtedly the most extensive diary ever compiled outside of a booby hatch—nine hundred typewritten volumes, containing over sixty million words, which ...
Dour, diffident Henry Morgenthau Jr. sat in the House Ways & Means Committee room one morning last week munching raisins. Beside him also munching raisins sat his chief tax expert, small, dun-colored ...
Some of the early New Dealers made names for themselves. Henry Morgenthau Jr. made notes. When at last he was eased out of the Treasury in July, 1945, he took his candid diary with him—all 250,000 ...
Morgenthau was born into a wealthy, prominent New York family. His grandfather, Henry Morgenthau Sr., was U.S. ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and his father, Henry Morgenthau Jr.