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| 1. | Amazon.com |
| In lieu of an unrevealing Famous-People-I-Have-Known autobiography, the
owner of the Washington Post has chosen to be remarkably candid
about the insecurities prompted by remote parents and a difficult marriage
to... read full editorial |
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| 2. | 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 |
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| 3. | The New York Times Book Review, Nora Ephron: |
| Nothing that has been printed about Mrs. Graham is as compelling as the
story she tells herself in "Personal History," her riveting,
moving autobiography. . . . The story of her journey from daughter to wife... read full editorial |
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| 4. | From AudioFile |
| Katherine Graham offers memoirs that generously share not only her
accomplishments as publisher of THE WASHINGTON POST, but her difficult
family life from her privileged upbringing to her dynamic marriage to Phil
Graham... read full editorial |
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| 5. | From Booklist |
| Katharine (with an a) Graham has led a very full life, and her
personal history will be, most likely, very well received by the public,
for through it, she manages to answer questions of enduring interest: How
do... read full editorial |
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| 6. | 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 |
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| 7. | From the Publisher |
| Remarkable. Katharine Graham has a wonderful story to tell - the story of
her life. Listening to Katharine Graham tell you, in her own voice, the
stories of her childhood, to the infamous Black & White Ball, to running... read full editorial |
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| 8. | From the Inside Flap |
| 2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by the AuthorListen to Katharine
Graham tell you her story.Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize
for BiographyAn extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous
book by one of America's most famous... read full editorial |
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| 9. | 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 |
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| 10. | Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. |
| From Chapter OneMy parents' paths first crossed in a museum on 23rd
Street in New York. It was Lincoln's Birthday, 1908. Eugene Meyer, who was
thirty-two years old, had been in business for himself for only a few
years,... read full editorial |
