Harold Evans, Crusading Editor of Sunday Times, Dies at 92

  • His paper exposed a U.K. intelligence agent as a Soviet spy
  • He became editor at Random House after moving to the U.S.

Harold Evans in 1975. 

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Harold Evans, the editor of the Sunday Times who broke news on British scandals before becoming an authority on the U.S. with his books “The American Century” and “They Made America,” has died. He was 92.

He died Wednesday in New York, according to his wife, journalist Tina Brown.