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Harold Evans

    Harold Evans byl britský novinář a spisovatel, jehož díla se zaměřují na historické události. Byl známý svým působením jako šéfredaktor deníku The Sunday Times a později zastával významné pozice v amerických vydavatelstvích. Jeho psaní se vyznačovalo hloubkou a schopností podat komplexní historické události poutavým způsobem, což mu zajistilo uznání jak v Británii, tak ve Spojených státech. Evans přispěl k žurnalistice svým inovativním přístupem a snahou o objektivní zpravodajství.

    Front page history
    Pictures on a Page
    Headline Photography
    Do I Make Myself Clear?
    Just Yannis
    Men in the Tropics
    • Just Yannis

      • 176 stránek
      • 7 hodin čtení

      Focusing on the tumultuous events of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, this book highlights the work of Yannis Behrakis, a photographer dedicated to documenting significant historical moments. Through his lens, he captures the horrors of the Sierra Leone Civil War, the Arab Spring's fight for freedom, the struggles of Kurdish refugees during the Gulf War, and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Behrakis emerges as a vital witness to history, showcasing the human experience amidst chaos and conflict.

      Just Yannis
    • A wise and entertaining guide to writing English the proper way, by one of the greatest newspaper editors of our time.

      Do I Make Myself Clear?
    • Pictures on a Page

      • 352 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení
      4,3(4)Ohodnotit

      A study of photo-journalism, that offers a complete analysis of how photographs are taken, selected and edited for newspapers and magazines. It also features interviews with many celebrated photographers such as: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Snowdon, Bert Hardy, Bill Brandt, Don McCullin, and Eugene Smith.

      Pictures on a Page
    • An illustrated history of American innovators--some well known, some unknown, and all fascinating-- by the author of the bestselling The American Century.

      They Made America
    • My Paper Chase

      True Stories of Vanished Times

      3,9(12)Ohodnotit

      In My Paper Chase, Harold Evans recounts the wild and wonderful tale of newspapering life, a story stretching from the 1930s to his service in WWII, through towns big and off the map, entailing clashes with Rupert Murdoch and crusades to use journalism to better the lives of those less fortunate

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

      My Paper Chase
    • Although most of this sprawling book is set in the 20th century, it begins on April 29, 1889, when Benjamin Harrison commemorated the first centennial of American government. This 11-year jump-start allows Harold Evans to write about the last major push to settle the Western territories, the gradual dwindling of Native American societies, the rise to prominence of William Jennings Bryan, and other quintessentially American moments of the 19th century. But make no mistake about it--The American Century is very much rooted in the modern world. Evans's tight, journalistic prose marks the significant events and personages in America's rise to superpower status and offers several educational surprises, such as a two-page spread on too-little-known naval historian Alfred Mahan, whose The Influence of Sea Power upon History shaped foreign policy in America and several European nations. His treatments of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and the Watergate crisis are substantial highlights. Juxtapositions such as Ralph Nader and Rachel Carson or Jimmy Hoffa and Cesar Chavez make for a lively overview. The book essentially ends with the inauguration of George Bush in 1989, although brief mention is made to some of what has happened since then. Filled with photographs and contemporary editorial cartoons, The American Century is an excellent one-volume chronicle of a rather momentous 100 years.

      The American century