Donald Read Boeken

"This is the story of Reuters, the international news agency. In 1851 Julius Reuter set up the London organization which was eventually to extend throughout most of the world. Over a century later, Reuters was first with the news of the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961, and then first with the story of its breaching in 1989. The Power of News is a fascinating account of the company which for almost 150 years has brought us history as it is being made."--Jacket

A social and political history of England during the late-Victorian and Edwardian years. It examines transitional aspects of the period in which English society acquired its modern shape, and emphasizes changes in industrial, urban, class and constitutional areas.