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About Katharine Graham
See more books from this AuthorIt was an excruciating coming-of-age, because of her constant self-doubt and frankly poor management and because of the magnitude of the events played out on her watch--each revisited in reflective, defensive, parochial detail: the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, the pressmen's strike, the company's ...
| Read Full Review of Personal HistoryContrast it to the smiling photo of Graham at her debut, or even her happy wedding photo, and it serves to illustrate the increasingly sad story that Graham outlines in painful pages that tell of her husband's metal breakdown, his intention to divorce her, and finally his suicide.
Jan 22 2011 | Read Full Review of Personal HistoryOn the verge of her eighth decade, she looks back with a clear and discerning eye, cataloging her weaknesses the years of kowtowing to her husband, her extreme self-doubt upon taking over the paper, her social awkwardness even more than her strengths, which are myriad and self-evident.
Mar 07 1997 | Read Full Review of Personal HistoryGraham credit for being the first to describe journalism as "the first rough draft of history."
Aug 30 2010 | Read Full Review of Personal HistoryIt was Philip Graham who induced John Kennedy to choose Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate in 1960.
Mar 20 2008 | Read Full Review of Personal HistoryI’ve written in the past that entrepreneurs should stop reading business books and instead should read traditionally non-business books to stretch their mind in other ways.
Jan 23 2006 | Read Full Review of Personal HistoryAn aggregated and normalized score based on 223 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes
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