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Feb 24, 1998 · From the Inside Flap. Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, Personal History is, as its title suggests, a book composed of both personal memoir and history.
- Katharine Graham
- $11.19
- Vintage
Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 – July 17, 2001) was an American newspaper publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, from 1963 to 1991. Graham presided over the paper as it reported on the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
Jan 1, 2001 · Katharine Meyer Graham's autobiography takes us from her childhood as the daughter of a successful businessman to being the powerful woman at the head of the Washington Post. Katharine Meyer and her siblings were mainly raised by their nursemaid and governess as young children.
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- Paperback
Apr 2, 2014 · Learn about the life and achievements of Katharine Graham, America's first female Fortune 500 CEO and publisher of the Washington Post. She led the paper to national prominence, defied the government to publish the Pentagon Papers, and oversaw the Watergate investigation.
Katharine Graham (born June 16, 1917, New York, New York, U.S.—died July 17, 2001, Boise, Idaho) was an American business executive who owned and published various news publications, most notably The Washington Post, which she transformed into one of the leading newspapers in the United States.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
As timely now as ever, Personal History is an exemplary record of our history and of the woman who played such a shaping role within them, discovering her own strength and sense of self as she confronted—and mastered—the personal and professional crises of her fascinating life.
Feb 3, 1997 · Amazon.com Review. In lieu of an unrevealing Famous-People-I-Have-Known autobiography, the owner of the Washington Post has chosen to be remarkably candid about the insecurities prompted by remote parents and a difficult marriage to the charismatic, manic-depressive Phil Graham, who ran the newspaper her father acquired.
