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	Personal History by Katharine Graham - Reader's Guide - Books - Random House
		Graham spent her childhood and adolescence in a household that revolved around the needs of the parents rather than those of the children.
		Graham writes of her relationship with her husband, "I literally believed that he had created me, that I was totally dependent on him, and I didn't see the downside at all" [p.
		Graham identifies her husband as the energetic partner in the marriage, the one who was fun to be around, while she herself was "the foundation, the stability" [p.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0-375-70104-4&view=rg (0 words)

	Katharine Graham and History: Slanting the First Draft
		Katharine Graham's death prompted a flood of media accolades in mid-July.
		Graham's death set off a new explosion of tributes to her bestseller.
		Graham's book never comes close to acknowledging that her newspaper mainly functioned as a helpmate to the war-makers in the White House, State Department and Pentagon.
	www.commondreams.org /views01/0720-04.htm (969 words)

	Bookreporter.com - PERSONAL HISTORY by Katharine Graham
		Katharine Meyer, daughter of publisher Eugene Meyer and eccentric writer and artist Agnes Meyer, was born in 1917 and grew up in a wealthy, liberal family that divided its time between sprawling homes in New York and Washington.
		Contrast it to the smiling photo of Graham at her debut, or even her happy wedding photo, and it serves to illustrate the increasingly sad story that Graham outlines in painful pages that tell of her husband's metal breakdown, his intention to divorce her, and finally his suicide.
		Graham is first to poke fun at herself, telling a series of tales that are reminiscent of George Bush encountering a supermarket scanner for the first time.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0375701044.asp (0 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Personal History (Women in History): Books: Katharine Graham
		Katharine Graham's `Personal History' is a grand and epic memoir that can be read not only as a woman's rise to become editor of one of America's most important newspapers, but also as a history of post-war twentieth century America.
		Graham's retelling of her decades as head of the paper is divided into three main parts; the pentagon papers affair, the Watergate scandal, and the pressmen's strike.
		Graham appealing, it will probably be because of her willingness to do the right thing, even when very painful and dangerous to her, and her loyalty to others.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Personal-History-Women-Katharine-Graham/dp/1842126202 (0 words)

	Katharine Graham Biography
		Katharine Meyer Graham was born in New York City on June 16, 1917, the fourth of five children born to Eugene Meyer, a banker, and Agnes Elizabeth (Ernst) Meyer, an author and generous contributor to charity.
		Katharine Graham was described as a "working publisher."; Determined to preserve the family character of the business, she took up the reins after the death of her husband and worked hard not only to build but to improve her publishing empire.
		Katharine's impact on America was evident in the televised National Cathedral funeral watched by American citizens far and wide.
	www.notablebiographies.com /Gi-He/Graham-Katharine.html (1241 words)

	Amazon.de: Personal History: English Books: Katharine Graham (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Graham, born to multimillionaire Eugene Meyer, a Jew, and Agnes Ernst, an arrogant German, lived such a sheltered life that in college she had to be told how to wash a sweater.
		Katharine Meyer--her blue blood diluted only slightly by her father's Jewish roots, her development stunted severely by a self- aggrandizing mother--survived the conventions and emotional isolation of a richly endowed girlhood to marry the irreverent Phil Graham, whom she celebrates for liberating her from her unspontaneous self and the weight of her family mythology.
		Katharine Meyer Graham was a woman born into a world of wealth and privilege who raised four children, became involved in volunteer work, and ended as the head of a powerful newspaper.
	www.amazon.de /Personal-History-Katharine-Graham/dp/product-description/0375701044 (928 words)

	Katharine Graham - The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Graham was an alumna of The Madeira School and attended Vassar before transferring to the University of Chicago.
		Graham was de facto publisher of the newspaper from 1963 onward, formally assuming the title in 1979, and chairman of the board from 1973 to 1991.
		In her 1997 autobiography, Graham comments at many points about how close her husband was to politicians of his day (he was instrumental, for example, in getting Lyndon Johnson to be the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee in 1960), and how such personal closeness with politicians later became unacceptable in journalism.
	www.blackvault.com /wiki/index.php?title=Katharine_Graham&redirect=no (1304 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: 'Levey Live'
		Katharine Graham: There is no way a newspaper cannot rely to some extent on sources that we cannot name without harming them or betraying their positions.
		Katharine Graham: I don't know the answer to the abuse of the Internet--either as you say for making a bomb or for information that abuses children who are watching.
		Katharine Graham: It might be a temptation for The Post to try to defend the District of Columbia and surrounding areas, and therefore to report the good things that happen.
	discuss.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/zforum/98/bob0721.htm (3271 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| Katharine Graham: First Lady of the Post
		Katharine Graham was the doyenne of the American press and a pillar of the country's liberal establishment.
		Katharine Graham was born in New York on 16 June 1917 to Eugene and Agnes Meyer.
		Katharine Graham saw her son Donald succeed her as chief executive of the Post in 1991, and of its other companies which included Newsweek magazine and numerous cable television franchises.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/1443672.stm (931 words)

	Flak Magazine: Katharine Graham, 07-18-01
		Katharine Graham's life played out like something from a storybook — the poor little rich girl who lost everything and won it back again — but unlike many a heroine, she built her own happy ending.
		Phil Graham was determined that he and his heiress wife live on their own terms and money, rather than the ones her father dictated.
		Later, Graham took on the Nixon Administration when she and the Post supported young reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward during their investigation of the Watergate break-in, causing John Mitchell to threaten that "Katie Graham's going to get her tit caught in a big fat ringer" for publishing the reporters' findings.
	www.flakmag.com /opinion/graham.html (907 words)

	Final Farewell To Katharine Graham, A Host Of Notables Eulogize Washington Post Leader - CBS News
		Kissinger noted his friendship with Graham grew despite the fact that the Post under her stewardship often was a relentless critic of the administrations in which he served.
		Graham was a daughter of banker Eugene Meyer, a Jew, and writer Agnes Meyer, a Lutheran.
		Graham, a trailblazer among women in business and journalism, also was honored by those who followe her in the profession, including television news anchors Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer who served as ushers.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2001/07/23/national/main302796.shtml (0 words)

	ASNE - A tribute to leadership: Katharine Graham
		Katharine Graham's first leadership moment for me will always be her decision in 1963 to take the future of The Washington Post into her own hands after the tragic loss of her husband.
		All reporters' notes relating to Agnew became Katharine's personal possessions, and asserting that she had ultimate responsibility for the custody of the notes, not the reporters.
		Katharine's decision was to get another edition on the streets as soon as possible and keep them coming for the next four-and-a-half months.
	www.asne.org /kiosk/archive/convention/2001/leadership/graham.html (0 words)

	Directors & Officers: Katharine Graham
		Graham was born on June 16, 1917, in New York City.
		Graham's husband, was publisher of The Washington Post from 1946 until his death in 1963.
		Graham is the author of Personal History, a memoir for which she received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
	www.washpostco.com /dir_kg.htm (0 words)

	Tim Graham on Washington Post/Katharine Graham on National Review Online
		Graham would delight in the outpouring of affection from her many friends and employees, and perhaps cringe at the excesses, like suggesting she was like America's Queen.
		Graham has been almost universally hailed as a paragon of press freedom, a heroine publisher who allow her editors and reporters to "speak the truth to power" and survived their enemies' petty attempts to devalue her media properties.
		Katharine Graham will be missed by many Washingtonians, and many historians have already found in her a ready-made heroine.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-graham072501.shtml (861 words)

	Amazon.de: Personal History (Women in History): English Books: Katharine Graham (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Katharine Graham's father was a multi-millionaire who left private business and government service to buy and restore the down-and-out Washington Post.
		Her husband Phil Graham was a brilliant and charismatic man whose plunge into manic depression and eventual suicide is recounted movingly and charitably in this book.
		Above all, Katharine Graham tells her own story - the contradictions of her privileged yet lonely childhood; the tragic drama of her marriage - and the challenges of her new life as the head of a great newspaper company.
	www.amazon.de /Personal-History-Women-Katharine-Graham/dp/product-description/1842126202 (1048 words)

	Katharine Meyer Graham Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Katharine Meyer Graham was born in New York City on June 16, 1917, the fourth of five children born to Eugene Meyer, a banker, and Agnes Elizabeth (Ernst) Meyer, an author and philanthropist.
		Katharine Graham was described as a "working publisher." Determined to preserve the family character of the business, she took up the reins after the death of her husband and worked hard not only to build but to improve her publishing empire.
		Graham, who died on July 17, 2001, from head injuries sustained in a fall, in Boise, Idaho, will be remembered as one of the most influential women in the world.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/katharine-meyer-graham (1061 words)

	VOA Special English - PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Katharine Graham
		Katharine Meyer Graham was once described as "the most powerful woman in America." She was not a government official or elected representative.
		Katharine Graham was well known for having dinner parties at her home in Washington.
		Friends of Katharine Graham said she would be remembered as a woman who had an important influence on events in the United States and the world.
	www.manythings.org /voa/03/030810pa_t.htm (0 words)

	Katharine Graham
		Katharine Graham, chairman of the executive committee of The Washington Post Company and the author of Personal History, a memoir for which she received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, died July 17 at age 84.
		Graham, who has been dubbed "one of the most powerful women in American media," and "one of the twentieth century's most powerful and interesting women," served as chairman of the board of The Washington Post Company for 20 years prior to becoming chairman of the executive committee in September 1993.
		Graham was born on June 16, 1917, in New York City to Agnes Ernst Meyer and Eugene Meyer, who purchased The Washington Post at a bankruptcy sale in 1933.
	www.yoursdaily.com /layout/set/print/different_views/katharine_graham (533 words)

	NPR News: Katherine Graham Obituary
		- Katharine Graham --> July 17, 2001 -- She guided The Washington Post through its historic coverage of the toppling of a president, won a Pulitzer Prize for her autobiography, Personal History, and ruled Washington's political and media scene in a style that was inimitably her own.
		Katharine Graham lived a remarkable life made more so by the circumstances of her rise to the top of her profession.
		He committed suicide in 1963 and Graham became president of the company -- at a time when most women were in charge of their households and little else.
	www.npr.org /news/specials/kgraham/010717.kgraham.html (368 words)

	BookPage Nonfiction Review: Personal History
		Katharine Graham, one of America's most powerful people, says she decided to publish her memoirs at age 79 because it was time to record the story of those who shepherded the Washington Post to greatness -- her father, Eugene Meyer; her late husband, Phil Graham; and herself.
		It was time, Graham said in a recent interview, that she look back at the defining issues in a life well lived, a life which also parallels the evolution of women from "second-class citizenship" to positions of rank and leadership.
		She insisted her son, Donald Graham, now publisher, and Alan Spoon, the company's chief operating officer, keep her posted but remain "totally in charge." One of her final decisions while she was totally in charge was deciding when she would leave the company.
	www.bookpage.com /9702bp/nonfiction/personalhistory.html (1053 words)

	Amazon.ca: Personal History: Books: Katharine Graham (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Katharine Meyer Graham was a woman born into a world of wealth and privilege who raised four children, became involved in volunteer work, and ended as the head of a powerful newspaper.
		Katharine Graham is widely recognized for her association with Watergate, but this book goes oh so much further in truly revealing what an incredible woman she truly was.
		Katharine Graham was courageous enough, and indeed showed her brilliance, in truly opening up about what she faced growing up in a sheltered, priveleged upbringing.
	www.amazon.ca /Personal-History-Katharine-Graham/dp/0739312529 (1582 words)

	Katharine Graham - Wir drucken! - Perlentaucher.de, Kultur und Literatur Online
		Katharine Graham wurde 1917 als viertes von fünf Kindern des jüdischen Finanziers Eugene Meyer und seiner Frau Agnes in Mount Kisco, New York, geboren.
		Katharine, die Tochter des reichen jüdischen Finanziers Eugene Meyer, hatte Phil 1940 geheiratet, vier Kinder mit ihm bekommen und die Rolle der Ehefrau und Mutter ausgefüllt.
		Katharine Graham, Tochter von Eugene Meyer, der die "Washington Post" 1933 ersteigerte, übernahm die Zeitung nach dem Selbstmord ihres Mannes in den 60er Jahren.
	www.perlentaucher.de /buch/79.html (0 words)

	KATHARINE GRAHAM HONORED BY NAA FOR LIFETIME OF ACHIEVEMENT
		New Orleans – The late Katharine Graham, former chair and CEO of The Washington Post Co. and former publisher of The Washington Post, is the posthumous recipient of the Newspaper Association of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award, which will be renamed the Katharine Graham Lifetime Achievement Award in her honor.
		Graham was an extraordinary newspaper publisher," said NAA Chairman Orage Quarles III, president and publisher of The News and Observer, Raleigh, N.C. "The journalistic accomplishments of the Post on her watch are legendary – the Pentagon Papers case, taking the lead on breaking news of the Watergate scandal.
		Graham, who died last year at age 84, took over the company in 1963 after the death of her husband, Philip.
	www.naa.org /Global/PressCenter/2002/KATHARINE-GRAHAM-HONORED-BY-NAA-FOR-LIFETIME-OF-ACHIEVEMENT.aspx?lg=naaorg (740 words)

	Online NewsHour: Remembering Katharine Graham -- July 17, 2001
		MARGARET WARNER: Katharine Graham was born in 1917 into a life of privilege, as the daughter of a wealthy New York banker, Eugene Meyer.
		Graham sided with her editors against the advice of the paper's lawyers and business executives and published the Pentagon Papers, top secret documents about U.S. decision-making in the Vietnam War.
		By now, Katharine Graham was considered one of the most powerful figures in journalism, and the preeminent woman in her field.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/remember/july-dec01/graham_7-17.html (2727 words)

	Online NewsHour: Personal History -- February 6, 1997
		Graham, I remember a couple of years ago, you were in the midst of writing this book, and I asked you how it was coming, and you said, well, you were in the middle of chapter 11, the bankruptcy chapter.
		KATHARINE GRAHAM: We had to decide at the very last minute, and I had no idea that this argument would arise as it had during the day with the lawyers and the business people very understandably because we were in the act of going public.
		KATHARINE GRAHAM: Joe Alsop was a wonderful long-time friend of mine and had been of both of ours, and he was a great entertainer.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/gergen/february97/graham_2-7.html (1479 words)

	Katharine Graham
		Katharine was educated at Vassar and the University of Chicago.
		After Graham committed suicide, and his widow Katherine assumed the role of publisher, she continued her husband's policies of supporting the efforts of the intelligence community in advancing the foreign policy and economic agenda of the nation's ruling elites.
		Graham was scandalized by the cultural and political revolutions of the 1960s, and wept when LBJ fused to run for reelection in 1968.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKgrahamK.htm (2061 words)

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