You can’t throw a book party for Henry Blodget (left) without acknowledging his checkered past as a securities analyst, even if a good portion of the room is on his side, so Slate editor Jacob Weisberg and Atlas Books publisher James Atlas did refer obliquely to his “misadventures” during the dotcom frenzy…and in the introduction to his investment guide, The Wall Street Defense Manual, Blodget characterizes the episode by conceding that he wrote “a lot of emotional, unprofessional e-mails, especially during the heat of the crash.” Setting aside the merits or flaws of that characterization, one thing’s for certain: Blodget has managed to prove F. Scott Fitzgerald wrong about that whole “no second acts in American lives” concept. Among those on hand in the party room at the top of the Newsweek Building to celebrate his arrival into the book world as a financial journalist (following his coverage of the Martha Stewart trial for Slate) were PublicAffairs founder Peter Osnos, Dead Horse Media founder (not to mention GalleyCat empowerer) Elizabeth Spiers, and Publishers Weekly publisher David Nudo, along with longtime Blodget friends like literary agent Sarah Burnes and author Gretchen Rubin.