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

* A moving memoir by a unique character which delivers a penetrating insight into some of the major events in post-war Britain

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.

• | Author: Harold Evans
• | Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• | Publication Date: Jun 03, 2010
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780349122458
• | ISBN-10: 0349122458