Becoming Katharine Graham

Matt Roush says...

Meryl Streep played her in the 2017 film The Post, but Katharine Graham (1917-2001) was already a legend in the world of journalism, having steered The Washington Post (with editor Ben Bradlee) through the turbulent era of the Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon administration in the 1970s and was immortalized in Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein‘s All the President’s Men. A documentary profile depicts Graham’s unlikely journey from when she took over the publishing reins of the Post after her husband Phil Graham’s suicide in 1963. Her transformation from a so-called “doormat wife” to a powerful advocate of the First Amendment is captured in archival footage and interviews with Woodward and Bernstein, joined by New Yorker editor David Remnick, Warren Buffett, Gloria Steinem, with son Don Graham and daughter Lally Weymouth providing personal memories.

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