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Jul 17, 2001 · Katharine Graham was born in 1917 into a life of privilege, as the daughter of a wealthy New York banker, Eugene Meyer. She remembered her upbringing as a lonely one of governesses and boarding ...
Feb 8, 2024 · In 1933, her father purchased The Washington Post, and in 1946, he handed over the role of publisher to Katharine's husband, Philip Graham. She didn't feel slighted, writing in her memoir, "Far ...
Jul 18, 2001 · July 17, 2001 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. Katharine Graham was all the things the tributes and obituaries say she was: a pioneer, courageous, gifted as a business executive and as a writer, a woman who left ...
Katharine Graham. Katharine Graham who had worked in the editorial and circulation departments of the Washington Post, became owner of the newspaper upon the death of her husband Philip Graham in 1963. She served as publisher from 1969 until 1979, and from 1973 until 1991 as Board Chair and CEO. In 1965, she hired Benjamin Bradlee as editor of ...
Jan 26, 2021 · More changes came. She dropped her patriarchal moniker “Mrs. Philip Graham” for her new title “Katharine Graham”. She turned down previously entertained bids for outsider acquisition of the newspaper, redecorated her home in her own style, and spent countless hours practicing speeches, anticipating questions from her staff, and working on elocution, diction, and confidence in her speech.
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. Read An Excerpt. Reading Guide.
Dec 12, 2017 · Drawn from Katharine Graham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Personal History, a dramatic account of how she piloted the Washington Post through the Pentagon Papers and Watergate crises. After inheriting the Post from her father, and assuming its leadership in 1963 after the death of her husband, Graham found herself unexpectedly playing a ...
