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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
About Personal History. In this widely acclaimed memoir (“Riveting, moving…a wonderful book” The New York Times Book Review), Katharine Graham tells her story—one that is extraordinary both for the events it encompasses and for the courage, candor, and dignity of its telling. Here is the awkward child who grew up amid material wealth ...
Former head of the Washington Post Katharine Graham discusses her young life, education, family, marriage and the Post's involvement with the Pentagon Papers...
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