My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times: An Autobiography

di Harold Evans (Autore)

Little, Brown Book Group, 2010

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.

• Autore: Harold Evans
• Editore: Little, Brown Book Group
• Anno: 2010
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 528 p.
• Dimensioni: 197 x 128 mm
• Peso: 366 gr.
• EAN: 9780349122458

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