{"id":140950,"date":"2018-01-12T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=140950"},"modified":"2018-01-10T20:08:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T01:08:32","slug":"the-post-jens-recommended-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=140950","title":{"rendered":"THE POST &#8211; Jen&#8217;s Recommended Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P49iVsdItkM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-140952 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Personal-History-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Personal-History-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Personal-History.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/danvers.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/2219515?locg=1\">Personal History<\/a> &#8211; Katharine Graham<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In this bestselling and widely acclaimed memoir, Katharine Graham, the woman who piloted the\u00a0<i>Washington Post<\/i>\u00a0through the scandals of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate, tells her story\u2014one that is extraordinary both for the events it encompasses and for the courage, candor, and dignity of its telling.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the awkward child who grew up amid material wealth and emotional isolation; the young bride who watched her brilliant, charismatic husband\u2014a confidant to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson\u2014plunge 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\u2019s union as she entered the profane boys\u2019 club of the newspaper business.<\/p>\n<p>As timely now as ever,\u00a0<i>Personal History<\/i>\u00a0is 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\u2014and mastered\u2014the personal and professional crises of her fascinating life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-140956\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/A-Good-Life-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/A-Good-Life-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/A-Good-Life-650x1024.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/A-Good-Life.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/danvers.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/1094797?locg=1\">A Good Life<\/a> &#8211; Ben Bradlee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The most important, glamorous, and famous newspaperman of modern times traces his path from Harvard to the battles of the South Pacific to the pinnacle of success at\u00a0<i>The Washington Post<\/i>. After Bradlee took the helm in 1965, he and his reporters transformed the\u00a0<i>Post<\/i>\u00a0into one of the most influential and respected news publications in the world, reinvented modern investigative journalism, won eighteen Pulitzer Prizes, and redefined the way news is reported, published, and read.<\/p>\n<p>His leadership and investigative drive during the Watergate scandal led to the downfall of a president, and his challenge to the government over the right to publish the Pentagon Papers changed the course of American history.<\/p>\n<p>Bradlee\u2019s timeless memoir is a fascinating, irreverent, earthy, and revealing look at America and American journalism in the twentieth century.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal History &#8211; Katharine Graham &#8220;In this bestselling and widely acclaimed memoir, Katharine Graham, the woman who piloted the\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0through the scandals of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate, tells her story\u2014one that is extraordinary both for the events it encompasses and for the courage, candor, and dignity of its telling. 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