Personal History: A Memoir

#1 in the country for sales; winner of the PULTIZER PRIZE; The gripping insider account of the woman who oversaw the Washington Post between the Watergate and Pentagon Papers crises, two of the most volatile times in American history

Katharine Graham shares her tale in this critically praised memoir ("Riveting, moving...a wonderful book" The New York Times Book Review). Her narrative is remarkable not just for the events it covers but also for the bravery, honesty, and dignity with which it is told.

Here is the awkward kid who grew up in an environment of financial prosperity and emotional seclusion; here is the young wife who witnessed her handsome, intelligent husband—a confidant to both Lyndon Johnson and John F. Kennedy—become mentally sick and ultimately commit suicide. And here is the widow who, having overcome her loss and fear, walked into the obscene boys' club of the media industry and faced a president and a press union.

Personal History, which is still relevant now, is a remarkable chronicle of our past and the woman who was so influential in it. Through facing and overcoming her many challenges in her unique life, she came to understand her own power and identity.