Personal History - by Katharine Graham (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In this critically acclaimed memoir, the woman who piloted the "Washington Post" through the crises of the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, and a pressmen's strike and turned it into a great newspaper now tells her story with courage, candor, and dignity. "Captivating . . . distinguished by a level of introspection that ought to be . . . the touchstone of autobiography".--"Newsday". <p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><b>The</b> captivating, inside story of the woman who helmed the<i> Washington Post</i> during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media. <p/><b>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography</b><br></b><br>In this bestselling and widely acclaimed memoir, Katharine Graham, the woman who piloted the <i>Washington Post</i> through the scandals of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate, tells her story--one that is extraordinary both for the events it encompasses and for the courage, candor, and dignity of its telling. <p/> Here is the awkward child who grew up amid material wealth and emotional isolation; the young bride who watched her brilliant, charismatic husband--a confidant to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson--plunge into the mental illness that would culminate in his suicide. And here is the widow who shook off her grief and insecurity to take on a president and a pressman's union as she entered the profane boys' club of the newspaper business. <p/> As timely now as ever, <i>Personal History</i> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Riveting, moving . . . a wonderful book. --Nora Ephron, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>Disarmingly candid and immensely readable. --<i>Time</i> <p/>Captivating . . . distinguished by a level of <br>introspection that ought to be, but rarely is, the touchstone of autobiography. --<i>Newsday</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Katharine Graham is fondly remembered as the powerful, longtime publisher of the <i>Washington Post</i>. She died in 2001.
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