| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
ix, 642 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Biographies (Booknotes) ViFGM
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Media & communications (Booknotes) ViFGM
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
In this bestselling and widely acclaimed memoir, Katharine Graham, the woman who piloted the Washington Post 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. 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. |
| Awards |
Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography, 1998. |
| Bibliography |
Includes index. |
| Subject |
Graham, Katharine, 1917-2001.
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Washington post (Washington, D.C. : 1974) -- History.
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Graham, Katharine.
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Washington post (Washington, D.C. : 1974).
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Publishers and publishing -- United States -- Biography.
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Newspaper publishing -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century.
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Journalists.
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Journalistiek.
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Dagbladen.
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Washington Post (krant)
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Publishers and publishing -- Biography.
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Women -- Washington (D.C.) -- Biography.
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Graham, Katharine 1917-
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Newspaper publishing -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th Century.
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Publishers and publishing -- United States -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| ISBN |
0394585852 (alk. paper) |
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9780394585857 (alk. paper) |
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0375701044 (Vintage paper) |
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9780375701047 (Vintage paper) |
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