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Personal History is the 1997 autobiography of Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham. It won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography,^[1] and received widespread critical acclaim for its candour in dealing with her husband's mental illness and the challenges she faced in a male-dominated working environment.

Themes

The main themes of the book include:

Graham's complex and often difficult relationship with her mother;
her family's involvement with The Washington Post from 1933 onwards;
her relationship with her husband Philip Graham;
Graham and Phil's relationships with John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, especially Johnson's appointment as Kennedy's running-mate;
Philip's mental illness and eventual suicide;
Graham's evolution from a housewife to the chairman of a major publishing company;
her growing awareness of feminist issues;
the legal battle over the Pentagon Papers;
The Post’s coverage of Watergate; and
her relationship to the labor movement, first as an activist, then as a reporter, then with the strikes at the Post, most notably the 1975–1976 pressmen's strike.

References

^ "The 1998 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved June 12, 2023.

Graham, Katharine (1997). Personal History. New York: Knopf. ISBN 0-394-58585-2.

External links

Booknotes interview with Graham on Personal History, February 16, 1997.

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[1] "The 1998 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved June 12, 2023.

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