Obsessive technocrats and screwball millionaires. The biology of business and the mechanics of leadership.
Strong personalities feature in many of the titles.
The daughter of a brilliant but cold mother and a rich businessman who bought The Washington Post at a street-corner auction, Graham led a sheltered life. But when Philip L. Graham, Katharine's husband of 23 years and the publisher of the paper, killed himself, Katharine went to work. Over the years that followed, she oversaw the Post's emergence as custodian of a more confrontational style of journalism that included investigations of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate cases. And Graham was at the helm as the Post became a huge business success following its 1971 public offering. With its insider perspective, the book is ''a fascinating tale of an extraordinary life,'' concluded Gleckman.