New Releases by Katharine Graham

PREMIO PULITZER DE BIOGRAFÍA AHORA EN LA GRAN PANTALLA En esta aclamada autobiografía y bestseller internacional, Katharine Graham, la mujer que lideró el Washington Post a través de la crisis de los Papeles del Pentágono y el escándalo de Watergate, cuenta su historia extraordinaria, tanto por los eventos que abarca como por el coraje, la franqueza y la dignidad de su narración. Nos encontramos con a la niña torpe que creció en medio de la riqueza material y el aislamiento emocional; la joven novia que vio cómo su brillante y carismático esposo, confidente de John F. Kennedy y Lyndon Johnson, caía en la enfermedad mental que culminaría en su suicidio. Pero también encontramos a la viuda que sacudió su dolor e inseguridad para enfrentarse a un presidente y un sindicato de prensa mientras ingresaba cautelosamente en el negocio de los periódicos, en ese entonces liderado por hombres. Incansablemente reveladora, elegantemente escrita, Historia personal es un registro ejemplar de nuestro tiempo y de la mujer que desempeñó un papel ejemplar, descubriendo su propia fuerza y ??confianza en sí misma al enfrentar y dominar las crisis personales y profesionales de una vida extraordinariamente fascinante.

Jetzt im Kino in der Verfilmung von Steven Spielberg mit Meryl Streep und Tom Hanks "Die Verlegerin" ist Katharine Grahams bewegende Autobiographie und gleichzeitig ein Spiegel der amerikanischen Gesellschaft des 20. JAhrhunderts. MIt 46 Jahren wurde Graham unvermutet Verlegerin der Washington Post, nachdem sich ihr Mann - der fruhere "Post"-Verleger - das Leben genommen hatte. SIe fuhlte sich zunachst unwohl in der Mannerwelt des Journalismus und lehnte dennoch alle Verkaufsofferten ab. IHre mutigen Entscheidungen pragen die Zeitung bis heute. 1971 lasst die streng geheimen "Pentagon-Papiere" uber den Vietnam-Krieg veroffentlichen, trotz drohender Strafe wegen Landesverrat. EIn Jahr spater gibt sie ihren Redakteuren Ruckendeckung bei der Enthullung der Watergate-Affare, die den US-Prasidenten das Amt kostete. GRaham wurde als machtigste Frau Amerikas gefeiert. "Sie sturzte Richard Nixon", titelte "Die Zeit" spater. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Pulitzer-Preis

Drawn from Katharine Graham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Personal History, a dramatic account of how she piloted the Washington Post through the Pentagon Papers and Watergate crises. After inheriting the Post from her father, and assuming its leadership in 1963 after the death of her husband, Graham found herself unexpectedly playing a role in history. Here she recounts the riveting episodes that transformed a shy widow into a newspaper legend, as she defied the government to publish the Pentagon Papers’ secrets about the Vietnam War and then led the way in exposing the Watergate scandal. Graham gives us an intimate behind-the-scenes view of the tense debates and high stakes she and her editors faced, and concludes with a powerful argument for the freedom of the press as a bulwark against abuses of power. An ebook short.

Pulitzer Prize-winnende autobiografie van de grote vrouw achter de Watergate-onthullingen. Katharine Graham was een timide telg uit een roemrucht en steenrijk geslacht. Als kind werd ze aan haar lot overgelaten. Als vrouw maakte ze mee hoe haar briljante man Phil, vertrouweling van onder andere John F. Kennedy, langzaam door depressies werd verzwolgen en ten slotte zelfmoord pleegde. Eenmaal weduwe overwint Graham haar onzekerheid. Van vrouw die etentjes organiseerde transformeerde ze in charismatisch leider van een gezaghebbende krant. Ze overleefde het old boys network van de krantenwereld en slaagde erin The Washington Post tot nieuwe hoogten te brengen.

From Katharine Graham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Personal History, a stirring narrative of how the legendary publisher of the Washington Post became a feminist. With an introduction from her granddaughter, Katharine Weymouth, publisher of the Post until 2014. Katharine Graham was the newspaper mogul who piloted the Washington Post through the crises of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate: but first she had to overcome the harsh expectations of a male-dominated industry, and her harshest critic of all—herself. Inheriting ownership of the paper from her father, and assuming its leadership in 1963 after the death of her husband, Philip, Graham found herself the only woman in a man’s world—a world, however, that was beginning to change. From Georgetown suppers to board meetings, from The Second Sex to Gloria Steinem, this is the refreshingly honest account of how the most powerful woman in Washington came into her own. An eBook short.

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULTIZER PRIZE WINNER • The captivating inside story of the woman who helmed the Washington Post during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media: the scandals of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate In this widely acclaimed memoir ("Riveting, moving...a wonderful book" The New York Times Book Review), Katharine Graham tells her story—one that is extraordinary both for the events it encompasses and for the courage, candor, and dignity of its telling. Here is the awkward child who grew up amid material wealth and emotional isolation; the young bride who watched her brilliant, charismatic husband—a confidant to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson—plunge into the mental illness that would culminate in his suicide. And here is the widow who shook off her grief and insecurity to take on a president and a pressman’s union as she entered the profane boys’ club of the newspaper business. As timely now as ever, Personal History is an exemplary record of our history and of the woman who played such a shaping role within them, discovering her own strength and sense of self as she confronted—and mastered—the personal and professional crises of her fascinating life.

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As a fitting epilogue to a life intimately linked to Washington, D.C., Pulitzer Prize winner Katharine Graham, the woman who transformed The Washington Post into a paper of record, left behind this lovingly collected anthology of writings about the city she knew and loved, a moving tribute to the nation’s capital. To Russell Banks, it is a place where “no one is in charge and no one, therefore, can be held responsible for the mess.” To John Dos Passos, it is “essentially a town of lonely people.” Whatever your impressions of Washington, D.C., you will likely find them challenged here. Experience Christmas with the Roosevelts, as seen through the eyes of a White House housekeeper. Learn why David McCullough is happy to declare “I love Washington,” while The Washington Post’s Sally Quinn wonders, “Why Do They Hate Washington?” Glimpse David Brinkley’s depiction of the capital during World War II, then experience Henry Kissinger’s thoughts on “Peace at Last,” post-Vietnam. Written by a who’s who of journalists, historians, First Ladies, politicians, and more, these varied works offer a wonderful overview of Katharine Graham’s beloved city.

1998年度普利策传记奖

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