Author: Katharine Graham

Publisher: WOMEN IN HISTORY

ISBN: 9781842126202

Category: Newspaper publishing

Page: 703

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As seen in the new movie The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Meryl Streep, here is the captivating, inside story of the woman who piloted the Washington Post during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media. In this bestselling and widely acclaimed memoir, Katharine Graham, the woman who piloted the Washington Post through the scandals of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate, tells her story - one that is extraordinary both for the events it encompasses and for the courage, candour and dignity of its telling. Here is the awkward child who grew up amid material wealth and emotional isolation; the young bride who watched her brilliant, charismatic husband - a confidant to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson - plunge into the mental illness that would culminate in his suicide. And here is the widow who shook off her grief and insecurity to take on a president and a pressman's union as she entered the profane boys' club of the newspaper business. As timely now as ever, Personal History is an exemplary record of our history and of the woman who played such a shaping role within them, discovering her own strength and sense of self as she confronted - and mastered - the personal and professional crises of her fascinating life.

Author: Katharine Graham

Publisher: Hachette UK

ISBN: 1474610269

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 720

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As seen in the new movie The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Meryl Streep, here is the captivating, inside story of the woman who piloted the Washington Post during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media. In this bestselling and widely acclaimed memoir, Katharine Graham, the woman who piloted the Washington Post through the scandals of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate, tells her story - one that is extraordinary both for the events it encompasses and for the courage, candour and dignity of its telling. Here is the awkward child who grew up amid material wealth and emotional isolation; the young bride who watched her brilliant, charismatic husband - a confidant to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson - plunge into the mental illness that would culminate in his suicide. And here is the widow who shook off her grief and insecurity to take on a president and a pressman's union as she entered the profane boys' club of the newspaper business. As timely now as ever, Personal History is an exemplary record of our history and of the woman who played such a shaping role within them, discovering her own strength and sense of self as she confronted - and mastered - the personal and professional crises of her fascinating life.

Author: Sandra J. Sucher,Shalene Gupta

Publisher: Hachette UK

ISBN: 1541756665

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 304

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A ground-breaking exploration of the changing nature of trust and how to bridge the gap from where you are to where you need to be. Trust is the most powerful force underlying the success of every business. Yet it can be shattered in an instant, with a devastating impact on a company’s market cap and reputation. How to build and sustain trust requires fresh insight into why customers, employees, community members, and investors decide whether an organization can be trusted. Based on two decades of research and illustrated through vivid storytelling, Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta examine the economic impact of trust and the science behind it, and conclusively prove that trust is built from the inside out. Trust emerges from a company being the “real deal”: creating products and services that work, having good intentions, treating people fairly, and taking responsibility for all the impacts an organization creates, whether intended or not. When trust is in the room, great things can happen. Sucher and Gupta’s innovative foundation for executing the elements of trust—competence, motives, means, impact—explains how trust can be woven into the day-to-day and the long term. Most importantly, even when lost, trust can be regained, as illustrated through their accounts of companies across the globe that pull themselves out of scandal and corruption by rebuilding the vital elements of trust.

Author: Katharine Graham

Publisher: Vintage

ISBN: 0307421511

Category: History

Page: 832

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As a fitting epilogue to a life intimately linked to Washington, D.C., Pulitzer Prize winner Katharine Graham, the woman who transformed The Washington Post into a paper of record, left behind this lovingly collected anthology of writings about the city she knew and loved, a moving tribute to the nation’s capital. To Russell Banks, it is a place where “no one is in charge and no one, therefore, can be held responsible for the mess.” To John Dos Passos, it is “essentially a town of lonely people.” Whatever your impressions of Washington, D.C., you will likely find them challenged here. Experience Christmas with the Roosevelts, as seen through the eyes of a White House housekeeper. Learn why David McCullough is happy to declare “I love Washington,” while The Washington Post’s Sally Quinn wonders, “Why Do They Hate Washington?” Glimpse David Brinkley’s depiction of the capital during World War II, then experience Henry Kissinger’s thoughts on “Peace at Last,” post-Vietnam. Written by a who’s who of journalists, historians, First Ladies, politicians, and more, these varied works offer a wonderful overview of Katharine Graham’s beloved city.

Author: Sandy Asirvatham

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

ISBN: 1438124244

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 121

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The life of the woman who was publisher and later chairperson and CEO of the Washington Post Company, and who in 1997 received the Pulitzer Prize for biography.

Author: David Gergen

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

ISBN: 1982170573

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 320

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"From the bestselling author of EYEWITNESS TO POWER, a practical study of leadership and a cri de coeur for young leaders to commit themselves to public service"--

Author: Joanne Mattern

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

ISBN: 9780823965007

Category: Juvenile Nonfiction

Page: 32

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A brief biography of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Washington Post publisher who helped lead the newspaper's coverage of the Watergate scandal.

Author: Alice Schroeder

Publisher: A&C Black

ISBN: 1408807327

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 832

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Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Prize 2008 The Snowball is the first and will be the only biography of the world's richest man, Warren Buffett, written with his full cooperation and collaboration. Combining a unique blend of "The Sage of Omaha's" business savvy, life story and philosophy, The Snowball is essential reading for anyone wishing to discover and replicate the secrets of his business and life success. Warren Buffett is arguably the world's greatest investor. Even as a child he was fascinated by the concept of risk and probability, setting up his first business at the age of six. In 1964 he bought struggling Massachusetts textile firm Berkshire Hathaway and grew it to be the 12th largest corporation in the US purely through the exercise of sound investing principles - a feat never equalled in the annals of business. Despite an estimated net worth of around US$62 billion, Buffett leads an intriguingly frugal life taking home a salary of only £50,000 a year. His only indulgence is a private jet, an extravagance he wryly acknowledges by calling it "The Indefensible". In 2006, he made the largest charitable donation on record, with most of it going to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Snowball provides a comprehensive, richly detailed insight one of the world's most extraordinary and much loved public figures.

Author: New Word City

Publisher: Pearson Education

ISBN: 0137079168

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 31

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Katharine Graham was suddenly forced to take charge of The Washington Post after her husband’s suicide. With no leadership training, she overcame timidity, mastered constant crises, and eventually made national history in journalism, business, and politics. In one lifetime, she experienced nearly all the pains and pleasures of self-renewal, American style. Here are the lessons from her experience that you can apply to your life and career. Katharine Graham’s story would probably make a bad movie, but it definitely made a good life. The movie would drag a poor little rich marionette through glib scenes of high living, low loving, suicide, and redemption--a Cinderella knockoff with a too-happy ending. Katharine Graham’s real life evoked something far bigger, the ever surprising power of human potential. She was born Katharine Meyer in New York City on June 16, 1917. Her father, Eugene Meyer, came from a prosperous Alsatian Jewish family living in San Francisco. He moved east as a young man and became one of New York’s most golden investment bankers. Known for taking big risks, Meyer actually never invested in a company without exhaustive research confirming he was making a surefire bet. J. Pierpont Morgan said of him, “Watch out for this fellow Meyer because if you don’t he’ll end up having all the money on Wall Street.” By 1915 Meyer’s fortune matched his age times a million. New Word City, publishers of digital originals, contributes 10 percent of its profits to literacy causes.