Personal History: A Memoir - Katharine Graham Audiobook

Written by Katharine Graham
Read by Carrington MacDuffie
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Books on Tape
Release date: October 17, 2017
Duration: 30:30:12

The 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.

Note—The book is 30hrs in 28 chapters, none of which has a heading. To help the reader I tried to give a rudimentary heading, from the first pages of the chapter, as a guide so the reader could pick-and-choose what to skip and what to read.

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