Personal History

This critically acclaimed memoir, now in paperback, tells the story of the woman who piloted The Washington Post through the stormy times related to the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, and a pressmen's strike, managing to raise that newspaper to even greater heights.

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Not just the story of Graham's stewardship of The Washington Post, this 'personal history' ranges from her favorite tennis partner (George Schultz) to her husband's fall into madness and suicide.

Katharine Graham is fondly remembered as the powerful, longtime publisher of the Washington Post. She died in 2001.