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