Full name: My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times

Author: Harold Evans Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780316031424 0316031429

In My Paper Chase, Harold Evans recounts the wild and wonderful tale of newspapering life. His story stretches from the 1930s to his service in WWII, through towns big and off the map. He discusses his passion for the crusading style of reportage he championed, his clashes with Rupert Murdoch, and his struggle to use journalism to better the lives of those less fortunate. There's a star-studded cast and a tremendously vivid sense of what once was: the lead type, the smell of the presses, eccentrics throughout, and angry editors screaming over the intercoms. My Paper Chase tells the story of Evans's great loves: newspapers and Tina Brown, the bright, young journalist who became his wife. In an age when newspapers everywhere are under threat, My Paper Chase is not just a glorious recounting of an amazing life, but a nostalgic journey in black and white. Similar books: A Good Life by Ben Bradlee The Kindness of Strangers by Kate Adie Whatever Happened to Margo? by Margaret Durrell The Good Times by Russell Baker A Life in Questions by Jeremy Paxman Strange Places, Questionable People by John Simpson Give Me Ten Seconds by John Sergeant The Enchanted Places by Christopher Milne Must You Go? by Antonia Fraser Where Did It All Go Right? by Andrew Collins After All by Mary Tyler Moore My Father's Fortune by Michael Frayn Home by Julie Andrews Memoirs by Kingsley Amis Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner Upstairs at the White House by J. B. West