- Hardcover: 528 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown; First Edition edition (24 Sep 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1408702037
- ISBN-13: 978-1408702031
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.8 x 4.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 274,619 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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 in The 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, in the Sunday Times
`Amid the pervasive gloom surrounding the future of newspapers, Harold Evans has produced a memoir to lift the spirits' -- Lionel Barber, editor, The 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' --The Economist
`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' --The Guardian
`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, in the Sunday Times
`Amid the pervasive gloom surrounding the future of newspapers, Harold Evans has produced a memoir to lift the spirits' -- Lionel Barber, editor, The 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' --The Economist
`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' --The Guardian
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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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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Terrific Read,
By Anna (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times - An Autobiography (Hardcover)
I read every single word - unusual for me these days - and would recommend this to anyone who has worked in the newspaper industry from whatever angle. Harold Evans's style is easy-going and pulls you along - as you'd expect from a professional journalist.The chapter on the thalidomide scandal alone makes it worth buying, but there is much more to this book than that one episode. I was especially moved by his relationship with his father. I finished it, amazed at what a life he's had and how much he has achieved. Not that he needs my plaudits, but bravo, Harold. I'd like to meet you one day.
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This review is from: My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times - An Autobiography (Hardcover)
Harold Evans was the last of the great campaigning newspaper editors. He became a journalist during the heyday of newspapers, the time of press barons and journalists who were household names and whose writing influenced governments and formed public opinion. From an ordinary northern background he become editor of The Sunday Times and The Times, before going on to be president and publisher at Random House.This beautifully written and cultured book covers the significant news stories of the second half of the 20th century, from an insider's perspective. It should be read by all starting work in the news media as a guide to the standard of professionalism and principles to which they must aspire.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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excellent read from a newspaper legend,
By Hayles "Hayles" (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times - An Autobiography (Hardcover)
This is a fantastic book which documents a life in modern times through the enthralling world of newspapers. Anyone with connections to the newspaper world will love this book but it has something for anyone interested in social history. As you would expect from one of the country's finest journalists this is brilliantly written and easy to read. A must.
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