My Paper Chase
My Paper Chase

Author: Harold Evans

Publisher:

Published: 2010-06-03

Total Pages: 515

ISBN-13: 9780349122458

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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.

The Paper Chase
The Paper Chase

Author: John Jay Osborn

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780983698005

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Describes the experience of students within American Law Schools.

My Paper Chase
My Paper Chase

Author: Harold Evans

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2009-11-05

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 031609207X

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A vivid and whip-smart memoir from the legendary editor who spent decades leading newspapers in London and New York. 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.

The Incredible Paper Chase
The Incredible Paper Chase

Author: Martin Handford

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781406324464

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Features a fold-out game - with press-out counters and tongue-twister forfeit cards - and a press-out circus to put on your very own show.

Double Fold
Double Fold

Author: Nicholson Baker

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2002-08-13

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1400033047

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The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country’s libraries–including the Library of Congress–have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and quality of the original paper and illustrations, and deteriorate with age. With meticulous detective work and Baker’s well-known explanatory power, Double Fold reveals a secret history of microfilm lobbyists, former CIA agents, and warehouses where priceless archives are destroyed with a machine called a guillotine. Baker argues passionately for preservation, even cashing in his own retirement account to save one important archive–all twenty tons of it. Written the brilliant narrative style that Nicholson Baker fans have come to expect, Double Fold is a persuasive and often devastating book that may turn out to be The Jungle of the American library system.

The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes
The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes

Author: Marcel Theroux

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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An uncle's fictional legacy leads a young man on a search for the truth about his family and himself. When Uncle Patrick dies, he leaves his ramshackle home to his nephew, Damien. What Damien uncovers in the house leads him to a decades old mystery and some dark, unsettling truths.

Newspaper Chase
Newspaper Chase

Author: John Escott

Publisher: Penguin Longman

Published: 2007-01

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 9781405850957

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Part of the 'Penguin Active Reading' series, this book provides a range of integrated activities designed to develop reading skills and consolidate vocabulary, and offers personalised project work.

The Paper Chase
The Paper Chase

Author: Dianne Stewart

Publisher: Heinemann

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780435891022

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'Quick, a newspaper!' shouted a driver. Jacob ran to th ecar, hodling out the Morning News. Suddenly newspapers were blowiong everywhere. What was Jacob to do?