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** 'In Harold Evans's cottage, behind a beach dune in Quogue, Long Island, there is a black-and-white photograph of a news conference at The Sunday Times when Evans was editor. "For me," he writes, "it has the exalted resonance of a Nocturne painting" by Whistler. It represents "the culmination of my life in journalism, 35 years, from reporting in Lancashire to the Manchester Evening News, to foreign reporting in Europe and south-east Asia and the United States for the Evening News and The Guardian, to five years of daily newspaper editing in Darlington and then 14 more years editing The Sunday Times of London' Melvyn Bragg TELEGRAPH ** 'Reading these evocative and enjoyable memoirs, one feels the warmth of his sunny personality even as the lights seem to be going outin much of print journalism. He saw the best of it - o, lucky man!' Robert Harris SUNDAY TIMES ** 'Amid the pervasive gloom surrounding the future of newspapers, Harold Evans has produced a memoir to lift the spirits' Lionel Barber FINANCIAL TIMES ** 'SIR Harold "Harry" Evans remains one of the great figures of modern journalism. For this reason, and because the kind of campaigning, reporting-based work he stood for is threatened as never before, his autobiography, written as he turned 80, is both gripping and timely' ECONOMIST ** 'Journalists' memoirs tend to be as transitory as the great stories they lovingly recall. Few of them impart much of value, except perhaps for a fleeting sense of nostalgia. Harold Evans must surely be counted an exception. because for more than a decade, he ran the best newspaper in the world. The Sunday Times, in the 1970's, was good because it placed journalism at the heart of the paper, and allowed it free rein' SPECTATOR ** 'Like many others I was lucky to have worked with him. His book is illuminating and entertaining on his personal history and it gives a valuable record of what used to be known as English provincial life; more vital then, perhaps than now. But the important reason to read it is that it tells you how good newspapers were once made and why they still matter' GUARDIAN ** 'Perhaps the most surprising thing about the memoirs of the man who was arguably Britain's greatest editor of the second half of the 20th century is that he doesn't reach the editorial chair of the Sunday Times until page 287, more than halfway through the book. ...Two names ? Samuel Smiles, the Victorian apostle of self-help, and Richard Hoggart, author of The Uses of Literacy ? came to mind as I was reading this engaging tale of the poor lad from Eccles, the son of a train driver, who failed his 11-plus yet rose to become editor of the Times. I found this section moving...' OBSERVER
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From a wartime beach in Wales to the gleaming skyscrapers of twenty-first-century Manhattan, the extraordinary career of Fleet Street legend Harold Evans has spanned five decades of tumultuous social, political and creative change. Just how did a working class Lancashire boy, who failed the eleven-plus, rise to a position where he could so effectively give voice to the unheard? Born in the bleak years between the wars in the sprawl of Greater Manchester into a thrifty, diligent and loving family, Evans inherited only the privilege of his parents' example. Theirs was a work ethic that led Evans through night school classes, national service and a passionate commitment to regional life, and, finally, to his unassailably successful editorship of one of our greatest newspapers, the Sunday Times. Whether unpicking the murderous chaos of Bloody Sunday, pursuing a foreign correspondent's murderers or uncovering the atrocity of Thalidomide, this consummate newsman evokes his contagious passion: for the real story and the truth.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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The challenge of running a major publishing empire came late in life to (Sir) Harold Evans but he has tackled it with the same bravura, the same principles and the same sure-footed instincts that carried him from his upbringing as the son of a Manchester railwayman to become one of the most brilliant newspaper editors of his generation. My Paper Chase tells that story with the clarity and intelligence of his best editorials.
Evans missed out on grammar school but still made his way to university. Determined on a career in journalism, he took the classic route through provincial sub-editing of flower show copy to the editor's chair at the Sunday Times during fourteen years of fearless reporting and trail-blazing campaigning. Moving on to the editorship of The Times itself, he crossed principles with Rupert Murdoch, resigned on live television and moved to a new career in the United States. Just as there seems not to have been an uneventful day in his life, so there is barely a dull page in this riveting memoir. The anecdotes are absorbing but no more than the perceptions of the moral obligations that devolve upon the aspiring journalist, from humble sub to editor in chief.
Now aged eighty-two, having lived through - and helped shape - a golden age of newspapers, now merging and seeking accommodation with the electronic world, Harold Evans might be expected to free-wheeling through retirement on Long Island with his second wife, Tina Brown. That impression will not be uppermost in the reader's mind after five hundred hugely enjoyable pages.
Evans missed out on grammar school but still made his way to university. Determined on a career in journalism, he took the classic route through provincial sub-editing of flower show copy to the editor's chair at the Sunday Times during fourteen years of fearless reporting and trail-blazing campaigning. Moving on to the editorship of The Times itself, he crossed principles with Rupert Murdoch, resigned on live television and moved to a new career in the United States. Just as there seems not to have been an uneventful day in his life, so there is barely a dull page in this riveting memoir. The anecdotes are absorbing but no more than the perceptions of the moral obligations that devolve upon the aspiring journalist, from humble sub to editor in chief.
Now aged eighty-two, having lived through - and helped shape - a golden age of newspapers, now merging and seeking accommodation with the electronic world, Harold Evans might be expected to free-wheeling through retirement on Long Island with his second wife, Tina Brown. That impression will not be uppermost in the reader's mind after five hundred hugely enjoyable pages.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Great stories of British journalism over the last sixty years.
The subtitle of this book is True Stories of Vanished Times.
I always like books that are about those who produce words and particularly if it is intertwined with recent history.
Harold Evans started off as someone who failed the 11 plus and still went on to university when that was not common at all.
After his national service and university he became a sub editor on northern newspapers when they were flourishing.
He was able to increase the circulation of the Northern Echo by 10 to 14 percent and this tripled the profit. An interesting view of the economics of newspapers at the time.
He worked on some of the famous miscarriages of justice of the fifties like Derek Bentley and Timothy Evans.
He led campaigns into the spy scandals of Burgess and McLean one of hi reporters said he was "combing a dog " which means the story had come upon with a full consignment of fleas.
The thalidomide story was harrowing but he kept it up . Northern Ireland went on for a long time and was dangerous for reporters.
It became less interesting once he had gone to the US and is now a publisher but in all a great book if you like Britiish social history from the 1940s until today.
I will be reading his guide to written English that he wrote for journalists.
What he describes has now passed with the advent of the Internet and the decline of newspapers but they were great days.
The subtitle of this book is True Stories of Vanished Times.
I always like books that are about those who produce words and particularly if it is intertwined with recent history.
Harold Evans started off as someone who failed the 11 plus and still went on to university when that was not common at all.
After his national service and university he became a sub editor on northern newspapers when they were flourishing.
He was able to increase the circulation of the Northern Echo by 10 to 14 percent and this tripled the profit. An interesting view of the economics of newspapers at the time.
He worked on some of the famous miscarriages of justice of the fifties like Derek Bentley and Timothy Evans.
He led campaigns into the spy scandals of Burgess and McLean one of hi reporters said he was "combing a dog " which means the story had come upon with a full consignment of fleas.
The thalidomide story was harrowing but he kept it up . Northern Ireland went on for a long time and was dangerous for reporters.
It became less interesting once he had gone to the US and is now a publisher but in all a great book if you like Britiish social history from the 1940s until today.
I will be reading his guide to written English that he wrote for journalists.
What he describes has now passed with the advent of the Internet and the decline of newspapers but they were great days.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is an interesting story of an interesting man who describes a life at the centre of a National Newspaper in turbulent times. It is a very good rags to riches story.
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