Personal History (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Katharine Graham

Personal History (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Katharine Graham

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * The captivating inside story of the woman who helmed the Washington Post during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media: the scandals of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate

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 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.

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.

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	9780375701047
ISBN 10	0375701044
Title	Personal History (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Author	Katharine Graham
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1998-02-24
Number of pages	688
Prizes	Winner of Pulitzer Prize 1998
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