Personal History

Katharine Graham was the legendary publisher of The Washington Post. She died in July 2001.

出版者:Vintage

作者:Katharine Graham

页数:642

出版时间:1998-2-24

价格:USD 17.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780375701047

图书标签:传记华盛顿邮报领导力美国研究管理传媒womanpublishing

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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.

读后感

《华盛顿邮报》是美国华盛顿最大、最老的报纸。1970年代初通过揭露水门事件迫使尼克松总统退职，《华盛顿邮报》获得了国际威望。而带领《华盛顿邮报》走上这一鼎盛时刻的领导者是一位女性，这位女性就是凯瑟琳·格雷厄姆。 她出生豪门，嫁给哈佛大学毕业的高材生，婚后甘愿放弃...  

1972年6月17日，位于华盛顿的美国民主党总部水门大厦闯入了几名可疑人员，并被保安人员抓获。这件事情在大多数媒体看来，只不过是一起普通的行窃案。但是《华盛顿邮报》的两名年轻记者却发现里面有蹊跷，这五人在警察局登记的名字都是化名。经过一番调查，他们发现真相令人震惊...  

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...  

1972年6月17日，位于华盛顿的美国民主党总部水门大厦闯入了几名可疑人员，并被保安人员抓获。这件事情在大多数媒体看来，只不过是一起普通的行窃案。但是《华盛顿邮报》的两名年轻记者却发现里面有蹊跷，这五人在警察局登记的名字都是化名。经过一番调查，他们发现真相令人震惊...  

用户评价

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

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

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

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.

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