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Personal History is: the——1997 autobiography of Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham. It won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography/Autobiography, 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※

• 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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