My paper chase : true stories of vanished times
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Crookston Public Library | 921 EVA (Text) | 33500010361277 | Main | Available | - |
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316031424 :
- ISBN: 9781408702031
- ISBN: 0316031429
- ISBN: 1408702037
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Physical Description:
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580 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Little, Brown, 2009.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | "Principal Sunday Times books": p. [551]-553. Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-562) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Vanished times. Grains of truth ; Getting up steam ; First, know your enemy ; Hot metal ; How I won the war ; Non nobis solum ; The sting of Disraeli's gibe ; Stop press ; Why aren't their women wearing our frocks? ; Adventures in the land of opportunity ; From Delhi to Darlington ; Just causes -- Scoop, scandal, and strife. The Rolls-Royce of Fleet Street ; The third man ; Children on our conscience ; Space barons ; Death in Cairo ; Divided loyalties ; Showdowns ; My Newfoundland. |
Summary, etc.: | 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. |
Author Notes
Harold Evans is the author of the New York Times bestseller The American Century. He was the founding editor of Conde Nast Traveler, editorial director of U.S. News & World Report, and president and publisher of Random House, where he published a record number of bestsellers. He was editor of the London Sunday Times and of The Times. He lives in New York.