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Personal History Study Guide

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by Katharine Graham
About 148 pages (44,309 words)
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Personal History Study Guide consists of approx. 148 pages of summaries and analysis on Personal History by Katharine Graham. Browse the literature study guide below:

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On her father's side Katharine "Kay" Graham descends from prominent French Jews. Her brilliant, confident father, Eugene Meyer, is a thirty-two-year-old self-made millionaire broker and art collector. He is born in Los Angeles and raised there and in San Francisco to be a lonely fighter and reader. Later, he graduates from Yale, apprentices to European banks and opens the Eugene Meyer and Company brokerage house. On Lincoln's Birthday in 1908, Eugene spies beautiful, self-assured twenty-one-year-old Agnes Ernst in a gallery and instantly decides to marry her. A friend arranges a meeting, and Eugene does marry Agnes exactly two years later. For Agnes it is not love at first sight. Wealth and generosity are Eugene's attraction. Descended from German Lutherans ministers, Agnes grows up in aus... (read more)
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      Chapter 3
      Chapter 4
      Chapter 5
      Chapter 6
      Chapter 7
      Chapter 8
      Chapter 9
      Chapter 10
      Chapter 11
      Chapter 12
      Chapter 13
      Chapter 14
      Chapter 15
      Chapter 16
      Chapter 17
      Chapter 18
      Chapter 19
      Chapter 20
      Chapter 21
      Chapter 22
      Chapter 23
      Chapter 24
      Chapter 25
      Chapter 26
      Chapter 27
      Chapter 28

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