Katharine Graham was the legendary publisher of The Washington Post. She died in July 2001.
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.
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。
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评分凯瑟琳·格雷厄姆把她的自传命名为《个人历史》,很显然,这是一个低调的书名,因为这部自传不仅仅是一个女人的个人历史,也不仅仅是《华盛顿邮报》的历史,更是一部角度独特的美国近现代史。 凯瑟琳·格雷厄姆所处的时代,从大的范围说,是美国近现代史上“大时代”频出的年...
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评分inspiring
评分Honest, lively
评分Self-made lady. It was lucky. It was hard.
评分最近读到最好看的书。第二章回忆家族历史、父母对自己的影响,有年老时回忆这些点点滴滴时的释怀和幽默,又还有少女式的对父母的一些行为的无法理解。最伤感的就是最后一句:我不再去想父母到底留给了我什么影响,我已经厌倦了停留在过去的生活里。
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