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Personal history

ID 325887
Slug personal-history
Contributors
Annotation
Description <b><b>The</b>&#160;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.<br><br><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&mdash;one that is extraordinary both for the events it encompasses and for the courage, candor, and dignity of its telling. <br> &#160;<br> Here is the awkward child who grew up amid material wealth and emotional isolation; the young bride who watched her brilliant, charismatic husband&mdash;a confidant to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson&mdash;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&rsquo;s union as she entered the profane boys&rsquo; club of the newspaper business.<br> &#160;<br> 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&mdash;and mastered&mdash;the personal and professional crises of her fascinating life.
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320 Literaire non-fictie algemeen NUR
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Publisher Vintage US
Imprint
Language eng
Page count 642
Duration
Publication date first 1998-03-01
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  • ISBN: 9780375701047 (BC)

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