Katharine Graham's Washington by Katharine Graham

Katharine Graham's Washington by Katharine Graham

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 I, 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.

Katharine Graham was the publisher of the Washington Post from 1969 to 1979, guiding the publication through the Pentagon Papers and Watergate crises, as well as the president and chairman of the Washington Post Company for a much longer time. Personal History, her best-selling autobiography, awarded her a Pulitzer Prize in 1998. In July 2001, she died at the age of eighty-four.

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ISBN 13	9781400030590
ISBN 10	1400030595
Title	Katharine Graham's Washington
Author	Katharine Graham
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2003-11-11
Number of pages	832
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