Personal History

Katharine Graham's father was a multi-millionaire who left private business and government service to buy and restore the down-and-out Washington Post. Her husband, Phil Graham was a brilliant and charismatic man whose plunge intomanic depression and eventual suicide is recounted movingly and charitably in this book. Above all, Katharine Graham tells her own story - the contradictions of her privileged yet lonely childhood; the tragic drama of her marriage- and the challenges of her new life as the head of a great newspaper company