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Personal History Katharine Graham

Personal History By Katharine Graham

Personal History by Katharine Graham


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Condition - Very Good
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Summary

This is the biography of one of America's most famous and admired women, owner of one of its great newspapers, the Washington Post. The book is populated with a cast of fascinating characters, from 50 years of presidents and their wives to Thomas Mann, Warren Buffet and George Schulz.

Personal History Summary

Personal History by Katharine Graham

An extraordinary, frank, honest and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, owner of one of its greatest newspapers, the WASHINGTON POST. But this is more than the mere life story of a successful woman. It deals with power and politics at the centre, and the relationship between the Whitehouse and the press, notably over Watergate. 'A well-written, fascinating, moving and, in its social and historical context, important book' Sarah Bradford, DAILY TELEGRAPH. 'In this enormous but charming and far from self-aggrandising autobiography she details, among other things, how she came to publish the Pentagon Papers and force Nixon to resign' GUARDIAN.

About Katharine Graham

Katharine Graham's father was a multi-millionaire who left private business and government service to buy and restore the down-and-out Washington Post. Her husband, Phil Graham was a brilliant and charismatic man whose plunge intomanic depression and eventual suicide is recounted movingly and charitably in this book. Above all, Katharine Graham tells her own story - the contradictions of her privileged yet lonely childhood; the tragic drama of her marriage- and the challenges of her new life as the head of a great newspaper company

Additional information

GOR004938424
9780753801673
0753801671
Personal History by Katharine Graham
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Orion Publishing Co
19980413
656
Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Biography 1998
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