Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, Personal History is, as its title suggests, a book composed of both personal memoir and history.
It is the story of Graham's parents: the multimillionaire father who left private business and government service to buy and restore the down-and-out Washington Post , and the formidable, self-absorbed mother who was more interested in her political and charity work, and her passionate friendships with men like Thomas Mann and Adlai Stevenson, than in her children.
It is the story of how The Washington Post struggled to succeed -- a fascinating and instructive business history as told from the inside (the paper has been run by Graham herself, her father, her husband, and now her son).
It is the story of Phil Graham -- Kay's brilliant, charismatic husband (he clerked for two Supreme Court justices) -- whose plunge into manic-depression, betrayal, and eventual suicide is movingly and charitably recounted.
Best of all, it is the story of Kay Graham herself. She was brought up in a family of great wealth, yet she learned and understood nothing about money. She is half-Jewish, yet -- incredibly -- remained unaware of it for many years.She describes herself as having been naive and awkward, yet intelligent and energetic. She married a man she worshipped, and he fascinated and educated her, and then, in his illness, turned from her and abused her. This destruction of her confidence and happiness is a drama in itself, followed by the even more intense drama of her new life as the head of a great newspaper and a great company, a famous (and even feared) woman in her own right. Hers is a life that came into its own with a vengeance -- a success story on every level.
Graham's book is populated with a cast of fascinating characters, from fifty years of presidents (and their wives), to Steichen, Brancusi, Felix Frankfurter, Warren Buffett (her great advisor and protector), Robert McNamara, George Schultz (her regular tennis partner), and, of course, the great names from the Post : Woodward, Bernstein, and Graham's editorpartner, Ben Bradlee. She writes of them, and of the most dramatic moments of her stewardship of the Post (including the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, and the pressmen's strike), with acuity, humor, and good judgment. Her book is about learning by doing, about growing and growing up, about Washington, and about a woman liberated by both circumstance and her own great strengths.
Katharine Graham was the legendary publisher of The Washington Post. She died in July 2001.
美国有这样一个女人,父亲是美联储的主席,母亲是社交名媛,从小锦衣玉食的她,却在结婚后面对难以想象的遭遇:自己的丈夫公开出轨与小三出双入对,随后饮弹自尽;总统曾经把她叫到白宫的卧室,一件一件的当面脱掉自己的衣服。而位高权重的司法部长则当众威胁: 她的奶头会被大...
评分Katherine Graham陆续这个名字出现在了我喜欢的三本书中,是两位金融大鳄Warren Buffett和Peter Peterson的密友,只是这一点便让我好奇地找来这本书看。 在阅读过程中,我不停地因为格雷厄姆夫人的诚实而客观的描述而感到惊讶,她坦诚地写出童年缺乏母亲关爱导致的不安全感,...
评分美国有这样一个女人,父亲是美联储的主席,母亲是社交名媛,从小锦衣玉食的她,却在结婚后面对难以想象的遭遇:自己的丈夫公开出轨与小三出双入对,随后饮弹自尽;总统曾经把她叫到白宫的卧室,一件一件的当面脱掉自己的衣服。而位高权重的司法部长则当众威胁: 她的奶头会被大...
评分中文版的劣质翻译真是糟蹋了这本普利策获奖传记。水门事件部分和邮报主编Ben Bradlee的A Good Life 相差无几,Graham 能给中国读者最大的奉献不是勇敢的公开私生活的细节,而是从最核心处展示了邮报上升为和时报齐名的报纸的过程。
评分美国有这样一个女人,父亲是美联储的主席,母亲是社交名媛,从小锦衣玉食的她,却在结婚后面对难以想象的遭遇:自己的丈夫公开出轨与小三出双入对,随后饮弹自尽;总统曾经把她叫到白宫的卧室,一件一件的当面脱掉自己的衣服。而位高权重的司法部长则当众威胁: 她的奶头会被大...
个人历史: 对每一个和我共事的编辑说过的话, 我不愿意阅读重要报纸上的任何内容, 也不愿意阅读未经我们讨论的任何突变新闻, 我既要了解事情的开端, 也要知道其结局.
评分A Great Woman Who Was Everywoman. With all the pain and late blooming that implies, Katharine Graham helped bring us out of a very different past. Because we are all in transition to an equality no one has ever known, she'll be a touchstone for the future
评分写的非常真挚 商业用语表达值得我学习 个人成长经历能借鉴 而且很豁达
评分个人历史: 对每一个和我共事的编辑说过的话, 我不愿意阅读重要报纸上的任何内容, 也不愿意阅读未经我们讨论的任何突变新闻, 我既要了解事情的开端, 也要知道其结局.
评分个人历史: 对每一个和我共事的编辑说过的话, 我不愿意阅读重要报纸上的任何内容, 也不愿意阅读未经我们讨论的任何突变新闻, 我既要了解事情的开端, 也要知道其结局.
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