Meanwhile, the book devotes dozens of righteous pages to the pivotal 1975 strike by Post press operators. Media adulation for Graham and her book has been so strong that any such criticism is apt to seem way outside the mainstream. Now, at age 80, Mrs. Graham has only a loose grip on a media empire left to her son Donald Graham and investors hungry to maximize profits. Although widely touted as a feminist parable, Graham's book is notably bereft of solidarity for women without affluence or white skin. They barely seem to exist in her range of vision.
Social inequities are dim, faraway specks.
The 625-page book gives short shrift to the unrich and unfamous, whose realities are peripheral to the real drama played out by her dazzling peers. It's certainly personal. But it's not history. Norman Solomon is a syndicated columnist. How Corporate Culture Gets the Last Laugh.