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The New York Sun, October 30, 2003 MEACHAM'S MOMENT
Drinks flowed at the Newsweek building Tuesday as Lally Weymouth, Rick Smith,
and Mark Whitaker hosted a book party for Mr. Meacham.
Leaders of finance, law, journalism, and city government flowed into the
room. Seen were historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and wife Alexandra; the Council
on For eign Relations chairman, Peter Peterson; Jonathan Karp, editor of Mr.
Meacham's book; Robert Hormats; James Goodale with wife Toni, who was talking with Henry Kissinger; Midge Decter, whose has been giving radio interviews on her
new book "Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait" (ReganBooks, an imprint of
HarperCollins Publishers); the Municipal Arts Society chairman, Philip Howard;
Schools Chancellor Joel Klein; Commissioner Henry Stern talking with Thomas
Reppetto, who is writing a book called "American Mafia: A History of Its Rise to
Power" (Henry Holt); Donald Graham; Charlie Rose and Amanda Burden; Richard
Gilder and Kenneth Bialkin, investors in this newspaper, and Commentary's
editor, Neal Kozodoy, talking with journalist John Leo near a windowsill.
Enjoying the view of Columbus Circle were Jeffrey Frank, a New Yorker senior
editor, and Diane Crone Frank, who are celebrating their new book "The Stories
of Hans Christian Andersen: A New Translation from the Danish" at Books of
Wonder November 6; humorist Christopher Buckley, who is working on a Middle East
comedy, possibly to be called "Florence of Arabia"; television titan Barry
Diller; Donald Marron; Ezra Zilkha; Jonathan Alter, who is writing a book about
the making of Franklin Delano Roosevelt for Simon & Schuster; Barbara Epstein,
co-editor of the New York Review of Books, celebrating its 40th anniversary;
Peter Osnos, who attended the NYRB party last week at the New-York Historical
Society; Norman Podhoretz talking with Mortimer Zuckerman; Kenneth Auletta, who
spoke at a recent Syracuse University Newhouse School of Communications
breakfast; David Halberstam, who is at work on a book about a Korean War battle
that took place in late November 1950. Many others attended.
Mr. Meacham's book has contemporary relevance. He writes: "Given the world in
which they lived - a global era of attacks on civilian populations, warfare,
tenuous alliances, and the mechanization of genocide - Roosevelt and Churchill
merit close attention, for their world is like our world, and together they
managed to bring order out of chaos."
Also in attendance was District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, who acted as
bartender at his father's home in East Fishkill, N.Y., in June 1942, serving
mint juleps to the visiting Roosevelt and Churchill. Asked if there was a lot of
security at the house then, he said not really. Some things have changed.
The Powerful Celebrate a Powerful Duo
Winston Churchill said meeting President Franklin Roosevelt,
"with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence," was like "opening a bottle of
champagne." Newsweek's managing editor, Jon Meacham, uses this quotation in the
introduction to his new book, "Franklin and Winston" (Random House), about the
friendship of these two great leaders.
