The Pentagon Papers: Making History at the Washington Post

Katharine Graham

dic 2017 · Distribuido por Vintage

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Drawn from Katharine Graham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Personal History, a dramatic account of how she piloted the Washington Post through the Pentagon Papers and Watergate crises.
 
After inheriting the Post from her father, and assuming its leadership in 1963 after the death of her husband, Graham found herself unexpectedly playing a role in history. Here she recounts the riveting episodes that transformed a shy widow into a newspaper legend, as she defied the government to publish the Pentagon Papers’ secrets about the Vietnam War and then led the way in exposing the Watergate scandal. Graham gives us an intimate behind-the-scenes view of the tense debates and high stakes she and her editors faced, and concludes with a powerful argument for the freedom of the press as a bulwark against abuses of power.

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Katharine Graham is fondly remembered as the powerful, longtime publisher of the Washington Post. Her memoir, Personal History, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1998. She died in 2001.