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In 1997, Katharine Graham published her autobiography, "Personal History," a book that succeeded on several levels. Mrs. Graham, who was the publisher of the Washington Post and then chairman of the company, knew a lot of interesting people and wrote about them well; and she was herself an enormously sympathetic person. Readers of her memoir, which won a Pulitzer Prize, rooted for her as they would for any modern heroine, even if her story was by then familiar: despite a sheltered life, she took charge of the family-owned newspaper after the death of her husband, hired Ben Bradlee as its editor, and saw it through its most important stories, the Pentagon Papers case and ...