Personal History

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. SIGNED. NF/NF. First Edition. 10th printing. Signed by Katharine Graham on a bookplate on the front endpaper. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Spine ends gently pushed and faint abrasion streaks to top fore-edges near the spine. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. B&W photos. Dust jacket is unclipped ($35.00) with crease to upper front flap corner, else fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

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, candor, 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.