Good Times, Bad Times: With a New Preface by the Author
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (511 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1453258361 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 602 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Well written account of a dramatic editorship I grew up reading Harold Evan's Sunday Times - in the late 1970s it provided a window on the world that few other papers could. I particularly remember comprehensive coverage of Egyptian President Sadats historic visit to Jerusalem; ongoing coverage of Soviet dissidents and a very welcome (I'm Irish) editorial urging Britain to consider withdrawal from Northern Ireland. However, from to. An excellently written combination of fact and fiction. William O'Neill The last 35 years have depleted the number of directors who actually sat around the board table with Harry Evans at Times Newspapers in 1981. His book concentrates on the events immediately following the company's acquisition by Rupert Murdoch. Evans has used his acknowledged skills as a writer to portray a clash between a hero and a villain. He casts himself as the hero, fighting to tr
“Enthralling an excitement worthy of John le Carré.” —Charles Wintour, The Observer“Evans remains one of the great figures of modern journalism.” —The Economist
Riveting, provocative, and insightful, Good Times, Bad Times is as relevant today as when it was first written.This book features a new preface by the author, in which he discusses the Rupert Murdoch phone-hacking scandal.. In Harold Evans’s classic memoir, he tells the inside story of Rupert Murdoch’s takeover of the Times of London and his rise to become a global media powerIn 1981, Harold Evans was the editor of one of Britain’s most prestigious publications, the Sunday Times, which had thrived under his watch. When Australian publishing baron Rupert Murdoch bought the daily Times of London, he persuaded Evans to become its editor with guarantees of editorial independence. But after a year of broken promises and conflict over the paper’s direction, Evans departed amid an international media firestorm. Evans’s story is a gripping, behind-the-scenes look at Murdoch’s ascension to global media magnate. It is Murdoch laid bare, an intimate account of a man using the power o