Power, Privilege and the Post The Katharine Graham Story

by Felsenthal, Carol

• ISBN13: 9781888363869
• ISBN10: 188836386X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-05
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Summary

Felsenthal's highly acclaimed and bestselling 1993 biography of Graham. So compelling that Graham's own Washington Post called it a "pitiless," "lively," "irreverent," and "persuasive...Portrait of a gutsy woman."

Author Biography

CAROL FELSENTHAL is the author of several acclaimed biographies, including the best-selling Power, Privilege, and the Post: The Katharine Graham Story; Princess Alice: The Life and Times of Alice Roosevelt Longworth; and The Sweetheart of the Silent Majority: The Biography of Phyllis Schlafly.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. FROM A LONG LINE OF RABBIS AND MINISTERS	13	(17)
Chapter 2. ROUGH BEGINNINGS: MR.--AND MRS.--MEYER GO TO WASHINGTON	30	(19)
Chapter 3. EUGENE--AND HIS DESCENDANTS--GET A NEWSPAPER	49	(14)
Chapter 4. KATHARINE STARTS HER EDUCATION	63	(11)
Chapter 5. KATHARINE PREPARES FOR THE POST	74	(12)
Chapter 6. THE MOST OUTSTANDING MAN OF HIS GENERATION	86	(14)
Chapter 7. KAY TAKES VERY EARLY RETIREMENT	100	(24)
Chapter 8. PHIL AND AGNES JOCKEY FOR POSITION	124	(23)
Chapter 9. ELATION AND DECLINE	147	(27)
Chapter 10. THE KENNEDY YEARS	174	(20)
Chapter 11. BREAKUP AND BREAKDOWN	194	(14)
Chapter 12. PHIL FALLS	208	(13)
Chapter 13. KAY RISES	221	(23)
Chapter 14. KAY AND BEN	244	(22)
Chapter 15. THE POST GETS "STYLE"	266	(15)
Chapter 16. FREE AT LAST	281	(13)
Chapter 17. KAY PASSES THE TEST	294	(26)
Chapter 18. "THE QUEEN BEE"	320	(17)
Chapter 19. A PULITZER PRIZE IN MANAGEMENT?	337	(31)
Chapter 20. ALL THE PUBLISHER'S PROBLEMS	368	(16)
Chapter 21. KAY GRAHAM GETS "FIRED"	384	(20)
Chapter 22. THE HITLER HOAX AND OTHER PROBLEMS	404	(19)
Chapter 23. HANGING ON, TO HER POWER AND INSECURITIES	423	(13)
Chapter 24. LETTING GO	436	(17)
NOTES	453	(40)
INDEX	493