personal history di graham katharine, Prima edizione (13 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Used - Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. Dust jacket has shelf wear.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Fifth Printing. ix, 642 pp. 8vo. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, crease at spine. Small red remainder mark at head of text block. Clean within.

Trade paperback. Condizione: Good. ix, [1], 642, [2] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Iindex. Some cover wear and soiling. Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001) was an American newspaper publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, from 1963 to 1991. Graham presided over the paper as it reported on the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. She was the first twentieth century female publisher of a major American newspaper. Graham's memoir, Personal History, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. Katharine Graham assumed the reins of the company and of the Post after Philip Graham's suicide. She held the title of president and was de facto publisher of the paper from September 1963.[25] She formally held the title of publisher from 1969 to 1979, and that of chairwoman of the board from 1973 to 1991. She became the first female Fortune 500 CEO in 1972, as CEO of the Washington Post company.[26][27] As the only woman to be in such a high position at a publishing company, she had no female role models and had difficulty being taken seriously by many of her male colleagues and employees. Graham outlined in her memoir her lack of confidence and distrust in her own knowledge. The convergence of the women's movement with Graham's control of the Post brought about changes in Graham's attitude and also led her to promote gender equality within her company. Autobiography by the woman who piloted the Washington Post through the crises of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. Graham hired Benjamin Bradlee as editor, and cultivated Warren Buffett for his financial advice; he became a major shareholder and something of an eminence grise in the company. Her son Donald was publisher from 1979 until 2000. Derived from a Kirkus review: Gracious, often touchingly ingenuous, at once panoramic and particular, Graham's autobiography absorbingly reconstructs her life of worldly privilege and affective deprivation as the daughter of one formidable man and the wife and widow of another, then chronicles her own rise to the challenges of captaining the Washington Post. Katharine Meyerâ"her blue blood diluted only slightly by her father's Jewish roots, her development stunted severely by a self- aggrandizing motherâ"survived the conventions and emotional isolation of a richly endowed girlhood to marry the irreverent Phil Graham, whom she celebrates for liberating her from her unspontaneous self and the weight of her family mythology. It was he who ``put the fix in our lives'' . . . and, shatteringly, put a gun to his head after escalating manic-depression climaxed in his running off with the latest of his unsuspected paramours, leaving Katharine to abject devastation. That she was utterly bereft of social confidence by middle age seems to have been both cause and effect of Phil's defection; nonetheless, she determined to go to work to preserve for her children the Post, which Phil had taken over from her father. (With characteristic modesty and felicity, she extols the ``originality'' of the friend who planted the idea that she could run it.) But also, she quite fell in love with the paper and the burgeoning corporate enterprise. It was an excruciating coming-of-age, because of her constant self-doubt and frankly poor management and because of the magnitude of the events played out on her watchâ"each revisited in reflective, defensive, parochial detail: the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, the pressmen's strike, the company's going public, major acquisition and personnel decisions. Graham's book, like her life, is harnessed to history, political and journalistic (even her best friends were famous). Her myriad storiesâ"discreet to a faultâ"humanize a whole pantheon of Personalities. Her personal drama, however, upstages the rest. 1st Vintage Book Edition. First? Printing.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Binding Tight Pages Clean Wraps Worn. Book.

Hard Cover. First Edition, First printing. Stated First Edition. NEAR-FINE IN FINE, PRICE-CLIPPED DUST JACKET. MINOR SHELFWEAR TO BOARDS. NO WRITING OR NAMES.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Maroon-cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean end papers. Clean text block with a roughened fore edge. Corners sharp. DJ has some light shelf wear with some soil. DJ is price clipped, but otherwise has no tears or rips. Eight printing.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. NF/NF. First edition, first printing 642 pp. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1997.

Stated First edition; Small 4to.; cloth backed boards, hardcover; ix, 642 pages; black and white photographic illustrations; very good in a very good unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Page tops are spotted.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. NF/VG. First edition, first printing. 642 pp. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1997.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Quarter-bound in Burgundy cloth with matching papers sides. The author's initials in gilt on front board, and gilt titles on spine. Comes with dust jacket, not price clipped, small stain to inside of jacket. Normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. 641 pages all intact, with front pages hand cut. Nice tight binding and all pages, text and illustrations are in good, clean, readable order. This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, manufactured in United States of America. First Edition, published in 1997. Composed by American - Stanford Graphic Services, Vermont. Printed and Bound by Quebecor Printing, West Virginia, Designed by Virginia Tan and Cassandra Pappas. An interesting insight into a very rich, famous publishing/madia tycoon.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition, Second Printing. Very good condition first edition, second printing hardcover signed and dedicated by the author, with unclipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is worn and sunned, and edges are creased and nicked. Board spine ends are slightly bumped and page block is lightly blemished. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Signed and Dedicated By Author. Used.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by author on the title page. Not inscribed. The book is in near fine condition with light soiling to the outer top edge of pages. The jacket is in near fine condition with very light edgewear, First Edition, Eighth Printing.