Katharine Graham's Washington

Title: Katharine Graham's Washington
Author: Katharine Graham
ISBN: 9780375414718
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2002
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher Description:
A final legacy from Katharine Graham: an all-embracing, highly personal collection of writings (more than 100 articles, essays, and excerpts) about Washington, D.C. -- covering the period from 1917, the year of her birth, to early 2001, just before she died.

Here are the president-watchers (including Will Rogers on Calvin Coolidge)...high points from insider memoirs (among them Dog Days at the White House by the presidential kennel keeper)...Washington moments vividly recalled -- by Kissinger (on the end of the Nixon presidency), by FDR's secretary (on Mrs. FDR), by Joseph Alsop, Ben Bradlee, David Brinkley, by Dean Acheson, Harry Truman, Rosalynn Carter, and Nancy Reagan.

Here is humor from Art Buchwald, P. J. O'Rourke, Russell Baker...social Washington, from Royal visits to rival hostesses...traumatic moments in the city's history -- including the news of Pearl Harbor and the death of President Roosevelt. There are also charming period pieces, astute appraisals of how Washington works, and stimulating considerations of the not-always-happy realities of life in a place that during Mrs. Graham's lifetime evolved from a provincial southern city to the capital of the world.

Katharine Graham's comments have the same acuity, humor, and candor that so charmed and moved the hundreds of thousands of readers of her Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography.