It has been celebrated for its candid and revealing depiction of Graham’s coming-to-consciousness as a feminist. The autobiography received the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1998. Other themes in the book include Graham’s parents’ long-standing relationship to the Washington Post, her conflict with her mother, and key stories she worked on during the release of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate scandal. It focuses on the difficulties Graham faced as a female publisher in a male-dominated industry, as well as her intimate struggle with her husband’s mental health issues and tragic suicide. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.Personal History is a 1997 autobiography by American publisher and former Washington Post employee Katharine Graham.
Jacket and binding with a bit of bumping to spine ends.
Printed letter on WASHINGTON POST letterhead loosely laid in, noting that "it was great pleasure to be able to support pioneering work in migraine research," dated Septemand signed by Donald Graham.
Inscribed by Katharine Graham to title page "For Shirley / Who has helped a lot / Kay Graham," and dated Feb 9/1997. Wray on front fly leaf dated 30 January 1997. Original price-clipped black-and-white pictorial dust jacket. Original maroon cloth spine, maroon paper boards. Wray sent the Graham family a note of condolence on Katharine's passing, to which Katharine's son Donald replied in the letter accompanying this copy, noting that it "was her great pleasure to be able to support your pioneering work in migraine research." A lovely copy with provenance connecting two pioneers. Wray, is an illustration of Graham's quiet philanthropy. This copy, warmly inscribed to neurologist and professor at Harvard Medical School Dr. Warmly inscribed first printing of the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir of the trailblazing publisher of the WASHINGTON POST during the tumultuous period that saw the stories of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate - with signed letter from Donald Graham.
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