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My paper chase : true stories of vanished times / Harold Evans.

Van Pelt Library PN5123.E9 A3 2009
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Evans, Harold, 1928-2020.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Evans, Harold, 1928-2020.
Evans, Harold.
Newspaper editors--England--Biography.
Newspaper editors.
Journalists--England--Biography.
Journalists.
Investigative reporting--England--History--20th century.
Investigative reporting.
Journalism--England--History--20th century.
Journalism.
Newspaper publishing--England--History--20th century.
Newspaper publishing.
Sunday times (London, England : 1931).
Guardian (Manchester, England).
History.
England.
Genre:
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Physical Description:
580 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Little, Brown, 2009.
Summary:
In My Paper Chase, Harold Evans recounts the wild and wonderful tale of newspapering life, a story stretching from the 1930s to his service in WWII, through towns big and off the map, entailing clashes with Rupert Murdoch and crusades to use journalism to better the lives of those less fortunate.
Contents:
Book 1 Vanished Times
1 Grains of Truth 3
2 Getting Up Steam 12
3 First, Know Your Enemy 40
4 Hot Metal 72
5 How I Won the War 100
6 Non Nobis Solum 112
7 The Sting of Disraeli's Gibe 122
8 Stop Press 138
9 Why Aren't Their Women Wearing Our Frocks? 166
10 Adventures in the Land of Opportunity 192
11 From Delhi to Darlington 235
12 Just Causes 263
Book 2 Scoop, Scandal, and Strife
13 The Rolls-Royce of Fleet Street 301
14 The Third Man 323
15 Children on Our Conscience 353
16 Space Barons 355
17 Death in Cairo 413
18 Divided Loyalties 445
19 Showdowns 479
20 My Newfoundland 594.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781408702031
1408702037
9780316031424
0316031429
OCLC:
318879231

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