I didn't know if I would like Katharine Graham's memoir. I thought first it was autobiography, and then the first chapters set up her family background and psychology, which I thought intrusive and overly intimate, even though well-written.
I started really liking it after she got out of her family's hearts and minds and into her own. Obvious talent, ambition, and sociability. She and her broadening circle knew everyone and everything, which was interesting; and she presented her wealthy frankly, and I liked that she didn't apologize any more than she condescended.
The book made an excellent follow-up to All the President's Men, even at a remove of a few months and from a distance.