![]() ![]() 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. 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. It was he who ``put the fix in our lives''. Katharine Meyer-her blue blood diluted only slightly by her father's Jewish roots, her development stunted severely by a self- aggrandizing mother-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. ![]() 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. ![]()
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