Personal History

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As seen within the new movie The Post, here is the captivating, inside story of the lady who helmed the Washington Post right through one of the vital turbulent periods within the history of American media.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography

In this bestselling and widely acclaimed memoir, Katharine Graham, the lady who piloted the Washington Post in the course of the scandals of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate, tells her story—one that may be peculiar 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 lack of confidence 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 lady who played this type of shaping role within them, discovering her own strength and sense of self as she confronted—and mastered—the non-public and professional crises of her fascinating life.

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