A Personal History
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781842126011 (1842126016)
Publish date: January 1st 2001
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
History,
Book Club,
Business,
Journalism,
Politics,
Biography Memoir
One of my book groups recently chose Katharine Graham’s autobiography, Personal History. I don’t normally write a review of a book that I haven’t finished, but I spent almost three weeks reading through page 405 of this hefty tome, so I think I got a good perspective on both its positive characteris...
I read this book when it first came out but it was so good I remember quite a bit. This book talks about her early life, her marriage, finding her voice in the marriage, suffering through the marriage, separation and I think finally they divorced or were close to it. The people she knew and the ti...
The level of honesty and introspection is what makes this such a fascinating read. Given her background and life history, it would otherwise come across as a lot of name-dropping. It's long, but unlike Ben Bradlee's book, interesting to the end.
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