Katharine Graham (1917–2001)
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Katharine Graham, June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001 Newspaper publisher Katherine Graham was born into a wealthy and powerful family. In 1933, her father bought the Washington Post. After Graham finished college, she went to work at the Post. It was there that she met her future husband, lawyer Phil mostra altro Graham. In 1945, Graham's father chose Phil to take over the struggling Post and Katherine stayed at home as a wife and mother of four. Phil suffered from manic depression and after a deep depression he committed suicide. At the age of forty-six, she was thrust into the job of newspaper publisher. In 1971, Graham ordered the Post to print a copy of the Pentagon Papers, top-secret documents that revealed the truth about the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. Even though she was friendly with Henry Kissinger and well aware of the battle that would be launched from the Nixon administration, Graham broke the most important political story of modern day, Watergate. The Post continued coverage of the Watergate cover up and the Nixon administration grew increasingly angry. The Post was nearly crippled by their failure to renew crucial television licenses and stock plummeted. Graham managed to keep control over the chaos and the paper became internationally renowned and she has been hailed as the most powerful woman in America. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Graham, Katharine
- Nome legale
- Graham, Katharine Meyer
- Altri nomi
- Meyer, Katharine (birth)
- Data di nascita
- 1917-06-16
- Data di morte
- 2001-07-17
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Boise, Idaho, USA
- Causa della morte
- complications from a fall
- Luogo di residenza
- Mount Kisco, New York, USA
Washington, D.C., USA - Istruzione
- University of Chicago (BA|1938)
Vassar College - Attività lavorative
- publisher
memoirist - Relazioni
- Weymouth, Lally (daughter)
Graham, Phil (husband) - Organizzazioni
- The Washington Post
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (2002)
Pulitzer Prize (1998)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1988) - Breve biografia
- Katharine Meyer's father bought the Washington Post in 1933. She lived a privileged though lonely life as a child and in 1940 married lawyer Philip Graham. He became publisher of the Washington Post until his mental illness and death in 1963. At that point, Katherine Graham stepped in to lead the paper and headed it for more than 20 years. She oversaw its most famous period, the Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon Administration, and the publication of the Pentagon Papers.
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- Opere
- 6
- Utenti
- 2,950
- Popolarità
- #8,657
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 46
- ISBN
- 39
- Lingue
- 5
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This book was recommended by Ryan Holiday (it's one of the few books written by women he recommends), and after reading What Makes Sammy Run and loving it, I chose this book as the next one for my Read To Lead project.
It's hard to do justice to this book by rating it with 1-5 stars. Some chapters were very interesting, especially those on transitioning from a housewife/hostess to CEO, investing, Warren Buffet, leading a large corporation without the right experience, friendship, relating to your parents and children, feminism and women in the workforce and the union strikes in the 70s. Other chapters (the majority), especially those that consisted mainly of names of Katharine Graham's political acquaintances, were less interesting or downright boring -- I'm not American, and most of the names, titles and White House functions meant nothing to me. YMMV.… (altro)