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Title: Power, Privilege and the Post: The Katharine Graham Story by Carol Felsenthal ISBN: 1-888363-86-X Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: February, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: From family forsakeness to media maven
Comment: This is an excellent book about Katherine Graham, former owner and publisher of The Washington Post. Katherine is initially, for all intents and purposes, ignored by her family throughout her youth. Little attention is bestowed upon her as her father, Eugene Meyer, runs The Washington Post and her mother, Agnes Meyer, socializes with every powerful individual she possibly can. Katherine perseveres through these harsh circumstances only to have her husband, Phil Graham, blow his brains out in the bathroom of one of their homes during a respite from an insane asylum. Katherine takes control of the newspaper (and company behind it), makes it the most influential paper in the nation, and becomes the most powerful woman in the world in the process. I recommend this book for any individual seeking a source of inspiration. This book should, and will hopefully, inspire many downtrodden people the world over for years to come.
Rating: 5
Summary: The single most useful book about the Post.
Comment: I've read every book I could find about Katharine Graham and the Washington Post -- and if you're only going to read one, this is it. Complex business dealings are explained clearly, people are approached evenhandedly, and scandals (public and private) are discussed without either shirking or sensationalism (and with a lot of citations.) The book focuses on the personalities of these fascinating people, making for a riveting story.
Rating: 5
Summary: How To Become a Successful Businesswoman
Comment: Biographer Carol Felsenthal turned her fine talents ro Katherine Graham and produced a top-notch bio, one which the reader can easily understand, and feel for, the housewife-turned-Fortune 500 businesswoman. What sticks in my mind is how Graham's distant mother finally decided to talk to her daughter about menstruation, to which Kay replied, "I started that last year."
Rich detail such as this makes it easy to see why Readers Digest condensed the book, and opens up a controversy over just how much of Felsenthal's research was co-opted by Graham herself to write, or have ghostwritten, her "Personal History." Felsenthal's objectivity adds to Graham's life story in a way only a detached biographer can. If one wants a map of how a shy woman can succeede in the business world, one can do no better than to read Felsenthal's illuminating text.
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Title: Personal History by Katharine Graham ISBN: 0375701044 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 24 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Katharine Graham's Washington by Katharine Graham ISBN: 0375414711 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 22 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: A Good Life by Ben Bradlee ISBN: 0684825236 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 11 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Washington by Meg Greenfield, Katharine Graham, Michael R. Beschloss ISBN: 1586481185 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 02 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Katharine the Great: Katharine Graham and Her Washington Post Empire by Deborah Davis ISBN: 0941781135 Publisher: Acacia Press, Inc. Pub. Date: October, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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