Personal History

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Katharine Graham was the legendary publisher of The Washington Post. She died in July 2001.

出版者:W&N
作者:Katharine Graham
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页数:672
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出版时间:1997-5-12
价格:GBP 25.00
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9780297819646
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图书标签:
  • 传记 
  • 女性 
  • autobiography 
  • 自传 
  • 美国历史 
  • 美国 
  • 有关认识自我 
  • 英语 
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Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography

An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, Personal History is, as its title suggests, a book composed of both personal memoir and history.

It is the story of Graham's parents: the multimillionaire father who left private business and government service to buy and restore the down-and-out Washington Post, and the formidable, self-absorbed mother who was more interested in her political and charity work, and her passionate friendships with men like Thomas Mann and Adlai Stevenson, than in her children.

It is the story of how The Washington Post struggled to succeed -- a fascinating and instructive business history as told from the inside (the paper has been run by Graham herself, her father, her husband, and now her son).

It is the story of Phil Graham -- Kay's brilliant, charismatic husband (he clerked for two Supreme Court justices) -- whose plunge into manic-depression, betrayal, and eventual suicide is movingly and charitably recounted.

Best of all, it is the story of Kay Graham herself. She was brought up in a family of great wealth, yet she learned and understood nothing about money. She is half-Jewish, yet -- incredibly -- remained unaware of it for many years.She describes herself as having been naive and awkward, yet intelligent and energetic. She married a man she worshipped, and he fascinated and educated her, and then, in his illness, turned from her and abused her. This destruction of her confidence and happiness is a drama in itself, followed by the even more intense drama of her new life as the head of a great newspaper and a great company, a famous (and even feared) woman in her own right. Hers is a life that came into its own with a vengeance -- a success story on every level.

Graham's book is populated with a cast of fascinating characters, from fifty years of presidents (and their wives), to Steichen, Brancusi, Felix Frankfurter, Warren Buffett (her great advisor and protector), Robert McNamara, George Schultz (her regular tennis partner), and, of course, the great names from the Post: Woodward, Bernstein, and Graham's editorpartner, Ben Bradlee. She writes of them, and of the most dramatic moments of her stewardship of the Post (including the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, and the pressmen's strike), with acuity, humor, and good judgment. Her book is about learning by doing, about growing and growing up, about Washington, and about a woman liberated by both circumstance and her own great strengths.

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中文版的劣质翻译真是糟蹋了这本普利策获奖传记。水门事件部分和邮报主编Ben Bradlee的A Good Life 相差无几,Graham 能给中国读者最大的奉献不是勇敢的公开私生活的细节,而是从最核心处展示了邮报上升为和时报齐名的报纸的过程。  

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五月初的某天,媒体突然报道David Goldberg猝死,时年47岁。其实一般人谁知道David Goldberg是谁呢?哦他是美国著名企业家,未上市公司Survey Monkey的CEO。可谁没事儿又会知道Survey Monkey是什么呢?顶多有些phd找committee约qual约答辩用过一两次。哦他是Facebook COO Shery...  

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Honest, lively

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Happiness is not getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you already have

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趁着放假啃完了。这本书不仅是她的personal history,更是美国从大萧条以来社会、政治、文化、新闻业的历史,尤其是从她这个局内人得角度来看,非常精彩。Phil的悲剧,怎么看都觉得有点凤凰男和孔雀女的意思。。。读完这本600多页的传记,再看其他书都轻轻松松啊

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她接手华盛顿邮报前的部分比较精彩。后面的管理和政治可能得等一阵子才有心情读吧。

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