
Personal History
Katharine Graham(Author)
Weidenfeld & Nicolson History (Publisher)
Published on 13. April 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
656 pages
978-0-7538-0167-3 (ISBN)
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Description
An extraordinary, frank, honest and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, owner of one of its greatest newspapers, the WASHINGTON POST. But this is more than the mere life story of a successful woman. It deals with power and politics at the centre, and the relationship between the Whitehouse and the press, notably over Watergate. 'A well-written, fascinating, moving and, in its social and historical context, important book' Sarah Bradford, DAILY TELEGRAPH. 'In this enormous but charming and far from self-aggrandising autobiography she details, among other things, how she came to publish the Pentagon Papers and force Nixon to resign' GUARDIAN.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 45 mm
Weight
757 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7538-0167-3 (9780753801673)
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Katharine Graham
Personal History
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08/2001
Weidenfeld & Nicolson History
€38.58
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Person
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