The Library

Welcome to the library of Harold Evans.  This includes his complete published works in book form and a few selected forewords.  Select a cover to read a synopsis and learn more about the book.

Some books are no longer in print but may still be available at www.bn.com, www.amazon.com, www.strandbooks.com, www.borders.com, or www.indiebound.org.

Book List:

• My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times (2009)

• They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine, Two Centuries of Innovators (2004)

• The American Century (1998)

• Good Times, Bad Times (1984)

• Editing and Design: A Five Volume Manual of English, Typography and Layout (1973 – 1978)

Book One:      Newsman’s English (revised & updated edition in 2000 published as                      Essential English for Journalists and Writers)
Book Two:      Handling Newspaper Text
Book Three:   News Headlines: An Illustrated Guide
Book Four:     Picture Editing (also published in 1997 as Pictures on a Page:                      Photojournalism, Graphics and Picture Editing)
Book Five:      Newspaper Design
           

• War Stories: Reporting in the Time of Conflict from the Crimea to Iraq (2003)

• Front Page History: Events that Shook the World (1984)

• Eye Witness: 25 Years Through World Press Photos (1981)

• Eye Witness 2: 3 Decades Through World Press Photos (1992)

• Makers of Photographic History (1990)

• Suffer the Children: The Story of Thalidomide with Phillip Knightley, Elaine Potter and Marjorie Wallace (1979)

• We Learned to Ski with Brian Jackman and Mark Ottaway (1975)

• The Active Newsroom: IPI Manual on Techniques of News Editing, Sub-Editing and Photo-Editing (1961)

Forewords:

• The Hugo Young Papers: Thirty Years of Politics – Off the Record (2008)
• On the Brink of Fame: Pop Stars in the Swinging ‘60s by Ian Wright (2008)
• Alistair Cooke’s American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War (2006)
• Media Law for Journalists by Ursula Smartt (2006)
• Five Thousand Days: Press Photography in a Changing World by the British Press Photographers’ Association (2004)
• The BBC Reports: On America, Its Allies and Enemies, and the Counterattack on Terrorism (2002)
• Best American Magazine Writing 2002 (2002)
• Shots in the Dark: True Crime Pictures by Gail Buckland (2001)
• Don McCullin (2001)
• Best American Magazine Writing 2001 (2001)
• War of Words: Memoirs of a South American Journalist by Benjamin Pogrund (2000)
• Attacking the Devil: 130 Years of the Northern Echo by Chris Lloyd (1999)
• A Focus on Fleet Street: Stanley Devon News Photographer  by Ruth Boyd (1995)
• Assignments: The Press Photographers’ Association Yearbook (1988)
• Of Presidents, Prime Ministers and Princes: A Decade in Fleet Street by Anthony Holden (1984)

Lectures:

• The Freedom of the Press: The Half Free Press (1974)
• Newspaper Publishing – Is the Freedom of the Press in Danger? (1979)
• The View From Ground Zero (2002)