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- StandardSummaries onlyKatharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]
Published Jul 29, 2025
Katharine GrahamWhen Katharine Graham took over the Washington Post in 1963, she was a shy socialite who'd never run anything. By retirement, she'd taken down a president, ended the most violent strike in a generation, and built one of the best-performing companies in American history. Graham had no training, no experience, not even confidence. Just a newspaper bleeding money and a government that expected her to fall in line. When her editors brought her stolen classified documents, her lawyers begged her not