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Swan Song

On Tuesday Katharine Graham, the Washington Post Co.'s CEO for three decades, died at age 84. In 1997 Slate's Jack Shafer reviewed her Pulitzer-winning autobiography, recounting how Graham transformed herself from an "ugly duckling" into a "carnivorous swan." "Most autobiographies are more about concealing than telling," Shafer writes, "but Graham ropes off relatively little." (Click here for the article.)

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