Personal History: A Memoir [Paperback]

The captivating, inside story of the woman who helmed theWashington Postduring one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography

In this bestselling and widely acclaimed memoir, Katharine Graham, the woman who piloted theWashington Postthrough the scandals of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate, tells her story—one that is extraordinary 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 insecurity 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 Historyis an exemplary record of our history and of the woman who played such a shaping role within them, discovering her own strength and sense of self as she confronted—and mastered—the personal and professional crises of her fascinating life. Riveting, moving . . . a wonderful book. --Nora Ephron, The New York Times Book Review

Disarmingly candid and immensely readable. --Time

Captivating . . . distinguished by a level of 
introspection that ought to be, but rarely is, the touchstone of autobiography. --NewsdayKatharine Graham is fondly remembered as the powerful, longtime publisher of theWashington Post. She died in 2001.The questions, discussion topics, and suggestions for further reading that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading of Katharine Graham'sPersonal History. We hope that they will aid your discussion of tl³°