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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.

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

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父母的立身原则，那是我读过的最简单、最中肯的箴言。它对我意义重大，甚至今天仍旧如此：“在某些时候,父母直接指明行事原则，也许能够帮助孩子我不认为强硬地建议你去做某事会对你有益。我甚至觉得不需要建议你什么，因为我相信你能做出很好的判断。我所能为你做的，是偶尔指出某些已经在我思想中演变得可靠而务实的原则，倘若你能够理解并赞同这些原则，那么就应让你自己去应用它们。”

人们对待死亡的反应非常复杂，尤其是面对双亲的去世，因为这个时候人会更多地感受到自我，以及自我与死亡之间再无间隔。现在，你变成了年老的一代。我相信，与逝者的关系越亲密，感情越深厚，悲伤就越深刻，越纯粹。父亲的孩子之中，哥哥受父亲去世的影响最大，也许是因为他们的关系本就复杂难解、矛盾重重；他们两人都没有过错，却从未亲近过。母亲对父亲的感情也异常混乱，他的离去令母亲非常难受。父亲的衰老给母亲带来了负担，也令她烦恼，但父亲去世后，她便沉浸在深深的抑郁情绪中。仿佛她一直靠着一扇门，如今这扇门猛然被打开了。

I didn't want to help overthrow a system that I knew I belonged to, although I certainly understood that there were problems that should be addresed.

[Her mom's correspondence after interviewing Thomas Mann- Mann had a slightly negative exposure in this memoir] Be a newspaperwoman, Kay, if only for the excuse it gives you to seek out at once the object of any sudden passion.

We have all felt a compulsion to be terrific! And that's a dangerous thing.

If I wasn't worth the whole $21 a week now I'd be worth much more than that later, since I would gradually learn the things I was so discouraged about now.

书籍介绍

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.