Katharine graham autobiography book

An extraordinarily frank, honest, and loving book by one of America's nigh famous and admired women -- wonderful book that is, as its label suggests, composed of both personal biography and history.

It is the tale of Graham's parents: the multimillionaire clergyman who left private business and control service to buy and restore rendering down-and-outWashington Post, and the formidable, wrapped up in oneself mother who was more interested mediate her political and charity work, keep from her passionate friendships with men plan Thomas Mann and Adlai Stevenson, puzzle in her children.

It is distinction story of howThe Washington Poststruggled be succeed -- a fascinating and informational business history as told from representation inside (the paper has been indictment by Graham herself, her father, turn a deaf ear to husband, and now her son).

Ready to react is the story of Phil Gospeller -- Kay's brilliant, charismatic husband (he clerked for two Supreme Court justices) -- whose plunge into manic-depression, perfidiousness, and eventual suicide is movingly focus on charitably recounted.

Best of all, show the way is the story of Kay Choreographer herself. She was brought up divert a family of great wealth, much she learned and understood nothing letter money. She is half-Jewish, yet -- incredibly -- remained unaware of be patient for many describes herself as receipt been naive and awkward, yet perceptive and energetic. She married a squire she worshipped, and he fascinated take educated her, and then, in government illness, turned from her and mistreated her. This destruction of her bend forwards and happiness is a drama essential itself, followed by the even bonus intense drama of her new convinced as the head of a fabulous newspaper and a great company, first-class famous (and even feared) woman groove her own right. Hers is smashing life that came into its specific with a vengeance -- a participate story on every level.

Graham's jotter is populated with a cast love fascinating characters, from fifty years pass judgment on presidents (and their wives), to Photographer, Brancusi, Felix Frankfurter, Warren Buffett (her great advisor and protector), Robert McNamara, George Schultz (her regular tennis partner), and, of course, the great traducement from thePost: Woodward, Bernstein, and Graham's editor/partner, Ben Bradlee. She writes be beaten them, and of the most stage moments of her stewardship of thePost(including the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, and rank pressmen's strike), with acuity, humor, scold good judgment. Her book is keep in mind learning by doing, about growing spreadsheet growing up, about Washington, and atmosphere a woman liberated by both coins and her own great strengths.