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Overview

Upon its publication, My Paper Chase received rave reviews from newspapers, broadcasters, and bloggers across three continents, and was a 2009 Notable Book of the New York Times-and for good reason. It's the wild and wonderful tale of a newspapering and publishing odyssey that took Harold Evans from wartime Manchester to London and finally to America. Editor of two of the world's most renowned newspapers, the Sunday Times and The Times, publisher of Random House, and a bestselling author in his own right, Evans brings to life print media's glorious history as he recalls his own-from unmasking the greatest Soviet spy to taking on the lost cause of the thalidomide children-and winning-to clashes with politicians, government agencies, and Rupert Murdoch, to finally achieving what Scott Fitzgerald has declared impossible-A Second Act in America.

In an age when newspapers everywhere are under threat, My Paper Chase is a witty and inspiring personal story but also a poignant and timely reminder of all that newspapers have been, and all that can be again.

  • Harold Evans
    Harold Evans

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Sir Harold Evans knows his way around a story, having served as the editor of The Sunday Times of London, The Times of London, and all manner of publications up and down the food chain. As the title of his new book, My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times, suggests, he describes an epoch past, an era in British journalism when type was poured hot, articles deemed unfit landed on an actual spike, and the men—and it was mostly men—who commanded all of it were literate buccaneers. If all that sounds a bit silly, a gaslight waltz of serious men in eyeshades that has nothing to do with how journalism evolved, then My Paper Chase will leave you hopelessly, relentlessly bored. But do not confuse the modern newsroom (a generally quiet place that could be part of an insurance company) with the newsrooms of old—palpable theaters of language and ideas. The book is a fight song that revels in the music of those times past.
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In this readable, almost wistful memoir, Sir Harold Evans remains the rare self-made Englishman who changed British journalism.
—The Washington Post

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780316031424
  • Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
  • Publication date: 11/5/2009
  • Pages: 580
  • Sales rank: 697,277
  • Product dimensions: 6.20 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 2.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Harold Evans
Harold Evans
Harold Evans is currently working on two new books. America, Inc. will be a history of American business innovators from 1869 to the present. We the People is a prequel to The American Century, covering the period from the Revolution to 1889. Mr. Evans was most recently editorial director and vice chairman of the New York Daily News and U.S. News & World Report. He lives in New York City with his wife, Tina Brown.

Table of 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 385

17 Death in Cairo 413

18 Divided Loyalties 445

19 Showdowns 482

20 My Newfoundland 507

Acknowledgments 545

Principal Sunday Times Books 553

Bibliography 557

Index 565

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  • Posted January 10, 2010

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    Though this book is almost 600 pages long it is a fast read. Thats because Mr. Evans has a very light and fun way of writting. I really enjoyed his discriptions of the old way of gathering news and how much work went into publishing a newspaper. And some of the ground breaking reporting he did is amazing. All in all a very good book.

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  • Posted December 23, 2009

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    An unusual and riveting account of British journalism at its heyday!

    Harold Evans' My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times appears a bit intimidating at first, if only because of the breadth, depth, and heft of it. But Harold Evans' writing flows, I found myself thoroughly engrossed. Born in 1928 from working class parents, Evans became a reporter at sixteen. His natural ability, drive, tenacity, and nose for a good story led him not just to excel in his field but to take on unrecognized and unpopular causes and to sway public opinion. One of the book's greatest strengths is the extent to which Evans gives us the background and context for each of the events or stories that he shares.

    At the start, Evans delves into his own background. His father had little formal education but was a genius at numbers. For instance, if you named a date whether it was 25 years ago or just a few months, his father could unerringly identify which day of the week it was. He worked his way up at the railway, beginning as an engine cleaner to the position of driver. His ability to calculate how much a person's wages would be, taking into account the different wage scales, overtime, deductions, and irregular hours, was recognized in his company's accounting staff and won him the gratitude and affection of his colleagues at the railway. Evans points out that in England at that time, his father's mathematical abilities, even coupled with hard work, would not have afforded him better opportunities because of "the Geddes axe." Sir Eric Geddes, a.k.a. Lord Inchcape, a Minister of the Crown and the former manager of the North Eastern Railway Company, had a strong contempt for the abilities of the working class. In his committee's examination of the expenditure of public funds, he advised against giving secondary school education to poor children, "children whose mental capabilities do not justify it" - essentially consigning an entire generation to very limited prospects.

    Evans' generation were given the opportunity to advance through a limited number of scholarships granted to ex-servicemen by the Ministry of Education, through the Butler Education Act in Great Britain. The Butler Act was a more restrictive version of the G.I. Bill but it paid for Evans' university education.

    Evans shares what it was like to work in the early newsrooms, where typewriters, typesetters, scissors, spikes, and paste were critical tools of the trade. In the chapter Stop Press, Evans shares what it was like as a young "copy taster" managing the coverage of the unfolding of the Harrow-Wealdstone disaster - a train crash that quickly became a collision of three trains with 75 dead and 110 feared dead for Manchester Evening News. He managed, edited, revised, and published eight editions in six hours, without the help of computers.

    Evans' projects range from battling air pollution to helping improve overseas newspapers, to beautifying Manchester to exposing the cause of the deadliest DC-10 air crash and uncovering one of the largest health scandals in the century.

    I found it fascinating - it's a book that I'll enjoy rereading at leisure.
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  • Posted December 9, 2009

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    I'm a huge fan of memoirs. I love to read about someone else's life. My Paper Chase tells the story of Howard Evans who ran a newspaper and the struggles he faced daily. He charged on even when there was a chance that the newspaper would lose it's place in the world.

    This was a very interesting book that allows you to look back in time and understand that nothing comes easy and everything has a price.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 12, 2009

    compelling!

    This is a compelling read. Mr. Evans writes with passion about his love for newspapers, his yearning for education, the responsibilities of journalism. You can practically smell the newsprint as an edition is coming off the presses. I gained a new understanding of the role of investigative journalism and the challenges reporters and editors face. I could not put this book down.

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