My Paper Chase
Author | : Harold Evans |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 515 |
Release | : 2010-06-03 |
ISBN-10 | : 0349122458 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780349122458 |
Rating | : 4/5 (458 Downloads) |
Download or read book My Paper Chase written by Harold Evans and published by . This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.