Katharine Graham

Personal History

by Katharine Graham

Rating: 4.1 ⭐

• 2 recommendations ❤️

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for BiographyAn 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.It is the story of Graham's the multimillionaire father who left private business and government service to buy and restore the down-and-out Washington Post, and the formidable, self-absorbed mother who was more interested in her political and charity work, and her passionate friendships with men like Thomas Mann and Adlai Stevenson, than in her children.It is the story of how The Washington Post struggled to succeed -- a fascinating and instructive business history as told from the inside (the paper has been run by Graham herself, her father, her husband, and now her son).It is the story of Phil Graham -- Kay's brilliant, charismatic husband (he clerked for two Supreme Court justices) -- whose plunge into manic-depression, betrayal, and eventual suicide is movingly and charitably recounted.Best of all, it is the story of Kay Graham herself. She was brought up in a family of great wealth, yet she learned and understood nothing about money. She is half-Jewish, yet -- incredibly -- remained unaware of it for many years.She describes herself as having been naive and awkward, yet intelligent and energetic. She married a man she worshipped, and he fascinated and educated her, and then, in his illness, turned from her and abused her. This destruction of her confidence and happiness is a drama in itself, followed by the even more intense drama of her new life as the head of a great newspaper and a great company, a famous (and even feared) woman in her own right. Hers is a life that came into its own with a vengeance -- a success story on every level.Graham's book is populated with a cast of fascinating characters, from fifty years of presidents (and their wives), to Steichen, Brancusi, Felix Frankfurter, Warren Buffett (her great advisor and protector), Robert McNamara, George Schultz (her regular tennis partner), and, of course, the great names from the Post: Woodward, Bernstein, and Graham's editorpartner, Ben Bradlee. She writes of them, and of the most dramatic moments of her stewardship of the Post (including the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, and the pressmen's strike), with acuity, humor, and good judgment. Her book is about learning by doing, about growing and growing up, about Washington, and about a woman liberated by both circumstance and her own great strengths.

Year: 2011Pages:

Katharine Graham's Washington: A Huge, Rich Gathering of Articles, Memoirs, Humor, and History, Chosen by Mrs. Graham, That Brings to Life Her Beloved City

by Katharine Graham

Rating: 4.0 ⭐

As a fitting epilogue to a life intimately linked to Washington, D.C., Pulitzer Prize winner Katharine Graham, the woman who transformed The Washington Post into a paper of record, left behind this lovingly collected anthology of writings about the city she knew and loved, a moving tribute to the nation’s capital.To Russell Banks, it is a place where “no one is in charge and no one, therefore, can be held responsible for the mess.” To John Dos Passos, it is “essentially a town of lonely people.” Whatever your impressions of Washington, D.C., you will likely find them challenged here. Experience Christmas with the Roosevelts, as seen through the eyes of a White House housekeeper. Learn why David McCullough is happy to declare “I love Washington,” while The Washington Post ’s Sally Quinn wonders, “Why Do They Hate Washington?” Glimpse David Brinkley’s depiction of the capital during World War II, then experience Henry Kissinger’s thoughts on “Peace at Last,” post-Vietnam. Written by a who’s who of journalists, historians, First Ladies, politicians, and more, these varied works offer a wonderful overview of Katharine Graham’s beloved city.

Year: 2003Pages:

The Pentagon Papers: Making History at the Washington Post

by Katharine Graham

Rating: 4.2 ⭐

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 role in history. Here she recounts the riveting episodes that transformed a shy widow into a newspaper legend, as she defied the government to publish the Pentagon Papers’ secrets about the Vietnam War and then led the way in exposing the Watergate scandal. Graham gives us an intimate behind-the-scenes view of the tense debates and high stakes she and her editors faced, and concludes with a powerful argument for the freedom of the press as a bulwark against abuses of power. An ebook short.

Year: 2017Pages:

Die Verlegerin: Wie die Chefin der «Washington Post» Amerika veränderte

by Katharine Graham

Rating: 3.9 ⭐

„Die Verlegerin“ ist Katharine Grahams bewegende Autobiographie und gleichzeitig ein Spiegel der amerikanischen Gesellschaft des 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit 46 Jahren wurde Graham unvermutet Verlegerin der Washington Post, nachdem sich ihr Mann - der frühere „Post“-Verleger - das Leben genommen hatte. Sie fühlte sich zunächst unwohl in der Männerwelt des Journalismus und lehnte dennoch alle Verkaufsofferten ab. Ihre mutigen Entscheidungen prägen die Zeitung bis heute. 1971 lässt die streng geheimen „Pentagon-Papiere“ über den Vietnam-Krieg veröffentlichen, trotz drohender Strafe wegen Landesverrat. Ein Jahr später gibt sie ihren Redakteuren Rückendeckung bei der Enthüllung der Watergate-Affäre, die den US-Präsidenten das Amt kostete. Graham wurde als mächtigste Frau Amerikas gefeiert. „Sie stürzte Richard Nixon“, titelte „Die Zeit“ später.

Year: 2018Pages:

Progress: A Personal Journey in Feminism

by Katharine Graham

Rating: 3.5 ⭐

From Katharine Graham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Personal History, a stirring narrative of how the legendary publisher of the Washington Post became a feminist. With an introduction from her granddaughter, Katharine Weymouth, publisher of the Post until 2014. Katharine Graham was the newspaper mogul who piloted the Washington Post through the crises of the Pentagon Papers and but first she had to overcome the harsh expectations of a male-dominated industry, and her harshest critic of all—herself. Inheriting ownership of the paper from her father, and assuming its leadership in 1963 after the death of her husband, Philip, Graham found herself the only woman in a man’s world—a world, however, that was beginning to change. From Georgetown suppers to board meetings, from The Second Sex to Gloria Steinem, this is the refreshingly honest account of how the most powerful woman in Washington came into her own. An eBook short.

Year: 2014Pages:

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Year: 1997Pages:

Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman's Poems, Poetry & Essays

by Katharine Graham

A book for all seasons that defies ordinary genres of poetry and essay. In 2002, Katherine Graham, Esq., a retired attorney, mother, wife, and daughter decided to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth from a break-the-mold female perspective as a whistle-blower for all struggling and oppressed groups from children to the elderly, whom she encountered during her legal career and whose voices fell upon those in power unwilling to listen. A passionate tour de force and ironically more relevant today than its debut in 2002 - a book anyone can read effortlessly in an hour or two...while leaving perhaps chinks of light during the darkest of nights never to be forgotten.

Year: 2002Pages:

[Personal History: Katharine Graham] [Author: Graham, Katharine] [March, 1998]

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Una historia personal: mujer, periodista, empresaria, editora de The Washington Post

by Katharine Graham

Year: 2000Pages:

Personal History (WOMEN IN HISTORY) by Katharine Graham

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by Katharine Graham

@ Memorable gift for a great Happy New Year party. It is the perfect gift for a husband, brother, uncle or fiancée of their wife, daughter, sister and even a friend.Happy New Year gift# Christmas gift# Name day gift# Gift from a colleague and boss# Office and everyday notebook# Gift for best friend# gift for the first day of school# student gifts#father and mother gift and# sister and bother giftThis notebook◆ Size - 6" x 9".◆ 100 pages

Year: 2021Pages:

My Mother: Book

by Katharine Graham

My Mother’s Book is a guided journal that prompts your mother to share her memories, dreams, and wishes, asking her to record everything from her favorite band as a teenager and her childhood games to her proudest accomplishment and her first memory of you. Give it to her as a gift; get it back as a chronicle of her life. The end result will be a deeply personal and beautifully designed keepsake, one that helps you remember what is really important in the people we love and the stories we share with one another.

Year: 2021Pages:

How to Be an Advocate for Your Disabled Child

by Katharine Graham

Year: 2000Pages:

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Progress: A Personal Journey in Feminism

Personal History by Katharine Graham UNABRIDGED Audio

Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman's Poems, Poetry & Essays

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