Illustrated. But the Washington Post was instrumental in avidly promoting the lies that made the Vietnam War possible in the first place.

$8.99. It focuses on the difficulties Graham faced as a female publisher in a male-dominated industry, as well as her intimate struggle with her … In Katharine Graham's autobiography, a small brown wren rises up to run The Washington Post. et us recap the story as we know it. Katharine Graham described her own anxiety and lack of confidence based on her gender in her autobiography. A total of 1,294,000 shares were offered to the public at $26 per share. Read as a memoir, the book is a poignant account of Graham… Katharine Graham was America’s first female Fortune 500 CEO. He bought The Washington Post in 1933 at a bankruptcy auction. Katharine Graham, née Katharine Meyer, (born June 16, 1917, New York, New York, U.S.—died July 17, 2001, Boise, Idaho), American business executive who owned and published various news publicatons, most notably The Washington Post, which she transformed into one of the leading newspapers in the United States. She served as publisher from 1969 to 1979. PERSONAL HISTORY By Katharine Graham.

So Katharine Graham, at 79, has finally made her statement. $5.84. Here, in a sampling from the jury reports of that period, the jurors often pose fascinating questions. I loved her story, and I loved her approach to her own life. Danach war sie zunächst als Reporterin für die San Francisco News tätig, bevor sie im selben Jahr begann, für die Zeitung ihres Vaters, die Washington Post, zu arbeiten… Katharine Graham’s decision to publish the Pentagon Papers was indeed laudable, helping to expose lies that had greased the wheels of the war machinery with such horrific consequences in Vietnam.

Upon the first printing of Katharine the Great, the original publisher pulled the book under pressure from Katharine Graham and her editor-in-chief, Benjamin Bradlee, who demanded that it be destroyed.

William Graham, son of legendary The Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, died Dec. 20 at his home in Los Angeles of an apparent suicide Katharine Meyer and her siblings were mainly raised by their nursemaid and governess as young children. Katharine Graham : biography June 16, 1917 – July 17, 2001 Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 – July 17, 2001) was an American publisher. Louisa May Alcott. In a sense, her life was a life of contrasts and similarities. These are just a few of the lives told in the Biography or Autobiography Pulitzer Prize-winning books of the last quarter century.. More on Katharine Graham from The New York Times Archives. Katharine Graham’s autobiography Personal History (1997) is the illuminating inside story of one of the United States’ most powerful media moguls. Katharine Meyer Graham's autobiography takes us from her childhood as the daughter of a successful businessman to being the powerful woman at the head of the Washington Post. After reading Katharine Graham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography, Personal History, I am impressed once … After reading Katharine Graham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography, Personal History, I am impressed once again with how powerful a great biography can be. Mary Kay: The Story of America's Most Dynamic Businesswoman by Mary Kay Ash. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $29.95. Harry S. Truman.

Robert J. Oppenheimer. She led her family’s newspaper, The Washington Post, for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous period, the Watergate coverage that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard […] Katharine Graham was born to great privilege. DuBois. Katharine Graham was born Katharine Meyer in 1917 into a privileged family in New York City, the daughter of Agnes Elizabeth (née Ernst) and Eugene Meyer. Making History at the Washington Post. shipping: + $3.99 shipping . Margaret Fuller. Katharine Meyer wurde als viertes von fünf Kindern der Reporterin Agnes E. Meyer und des Unternehmers Eugene Meyer geboren; sie wuchs in New York und in Washington auf.

In this stunning biography, veteran reporter Deborah Davis unearths the truth about the Washington Post and the family that ran it. Katharine Graham. 642 pp.