Personal History (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Katharine Meyer
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1875 to the 1990’s
- Setting: New York City and Washington, D.C.
- Principal Characters: Katharine Meyer Graham, Eugene Meyer, Agnes Ernst Meyer, Philip Graham, Leslie Farber, Ben Bradlee, Warren Buffett, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Lyndon B. Johnson
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Politics, Suicide, New York City, Guilt, Publishing or publishers, Depression, mental, Newspapers, Work or workers, Psychiatry or psychiatrists, Strikes or lockouts
- Locales: New York, NY, Washington, D.C.
Katharine Graham has become such a fixture in Washington, D.C., through her influential Washington Post that her rise to power and prestige seems natural and inevitable. How hard could it have been for a woman whose father owned the paper, whose husband edited it for several years, and who then took over after his death? In truth, her dominance took years of struggle. She was beset with self-doubt, with worry that she would lose the paper, and with a set of attitudes about a woman’s place in society that seem archaic. She exposes her vulnerability frankly enough to earn her...
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