The Bangkok World

It was a long season of war, of exotic adventures, of Asian aura, beauty and mystery - and, especially, of newspapering such as cannot ever happen again. Denis Horgan, as a very young man, found himself suddenly in the middle of it all - first as an Army officer with the Vietnam war, then helping search for a missing millionaire in the jungles of Malaysia, ultimately as editor-in-chief of the Bangkok World only a few years from when his grandest achievement with newspapers was delivering them from his bicycle. "The Bangkok World" - with the evocative and powerful photography of William Harting - recalls an age that was so wondrously unique, so special to its time as to be part of history yet, at the same dazzling moment, so exquisitely personal. Penetrating, reflective, funny, smart, bemused, 'The Bangkok World' captures those elusive days with so much of the spark and energy that created them. Denis Horgan's fascinating memoir of those amazing years and their quirks speaks to an experience that may very well be gone forever in an age when newspapers wither, when people get their news from their wrist watches and watch movies on their engagement rings. This was old fashioned journalism, old fashioned newspapering, old fashioned triumphs in the daily miracles of the business. Old fashioned but so rich, so colorful, so much fun.