This summer, I'm sharing some of my favorite memoirs.
Chasing Hope by Nicholas Kristof.
As a reporter, Nick established himself as willing to go out to tough places, whether it's poor countries or war zones, and bring home an understanding of what's going on.
But I found the book just very readable, very educational, and I hope there are reporters at many publications, not just the New York Times, giving us a very nuanced view of acute situations and really coming in with this sort of humanist view.
The only thing that makes me sad reading the Nick book is that we need more Nicks.
Personal History by Katherine Graham.
Kay Graham was the publisher of the Washington Post during Watergate.
She had a complicated life.
Kay has this mythic father who is super successful in business, and her father gave control of the paper, not her, but to her husband.
But then, when he kills himself, she inherits the paper and decides to get involved and does a very good job.
