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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	921 Graham, Katharine	4-week checkout	Due 05-19-2024

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One Smart, Tough Woman submitted by Sara W on June 20, 2011, 11:33pm As a prominent female working in turbulent times, former Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham certainly led a memoir-worthy life. The early chapters of the book deal with her wealthy girlhood and privileged adolescence are frustratingly laden with famous names and personalities, but this becomes more tolerable as the story moves forward.

As Graham comes more into her own in the story, the book also comes more into focus. The book smoothly explores her development into a wife/mother/Washington D.C. hostess and so the reader is able to better understand the total upheaval in her life when she suddenly must take over as publisher of the family’s major metropolitan newspaper.

Graham’s candid language and blatant acknowledgment of her early struggles in managing the newspaper make her a far more human figure than in the first chapters of the book. In discussing events befalling her paper: the Pentagon papers, Watergate, a pressmen’s strike, it is clear that Graham’s first concern is the Post. Not the prestige of the job, not her own reputation, but the success and security of the Washington Post.

Katharine Graham definitely lived a life worth reading about, and thankfully, she has done an excellent job of writing about it.

Biography submitted by aamasud on June 17, 2020, 9:37pm Its a biography of a smart woman