Personal history

The Resource Personal history
Label
Personal history
Statement of responsibility
Katharine Graham
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • The author describes her privileged but lonely childhood, her tragic marriage to the charismatic Phil Graham, her struggles as the head of the Washington Post, and the colorful politicians and celebrities she has known
  • In this 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 it, discovering her own strength and sense of self as she confronted--and mastered--the personal and professional crises of her fascinating life
Awards note
Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography, 1998.
Biography type
autobiography
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
  • 070.5/092
  • B
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
Z473
LC item number
.G696 1997
Literary form
non fiction
NLM call number
000133024

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