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Personal History
Rating: 4.0/5 Stars
Rank: 26134
An extraordinarily frank, honest and generous memoir by one of America's
most famous and admired women--the head of a great newspaper, the
Washington Post.
Simultaneous hardcover release from Knopf. 2 cassettes.
About the AuthorKatharine Graham lives in Washington, D.C.
Editorials
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Personal History
![]() | | | From Library Journal | | 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. A 200,000-copy
first... read full editorial |
![]() | | | From Kirkus Reviews | | Gracious, often touchingly ingenuous, at once panoramic and particular,
Graham's autobiography absorbingly reconstructs her life of worldly
privilege and affective deprivation as the daughter of one formidable man
and... read full editorial |
![]() | | | From the Back Cover | | "An extraordinary autobiography . . . touching . . . winning . . .
inspiring." --The New York Times"Riveting, moving . . . a
wonderful book." --Nora Ephron, The New York Times Book
Review"Disarmingly candid and immensely... read full editorial |
Customer Reviews
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Personal History
![]() | | | An Amazing Read! | | (Minnesota) January 15, 1998 - 5.0/5 stars | | Katharine Graham is a great reporter even when it comes to telling her own
story. She did not sensationallize anything; there was no need to. She
simply did what she does best. She put on her reporter cap and told... read full review |
![]() | | | Inspiring and gripping | | (Washington, DC.) December 10, 2002 - 5.0/5 stars | | Katharine Graham did not presume she was the end all in this book, she took
a humbel approach in telling her life's tale. There were boring, and
sometimes Exaggerated parts. I especially found the women's movement
chapter... read full review |
![]() | | | Impersonal personal history | | (Singapore) September 22, 2003 - 3.0/5 stars | | I thought I would be giving 5 stars for an award winning book but after
reading, it just fell short. There was too much name-dropping, one has to
be very familiar with the power scene of Washington at her time... read full review |
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