President Obama Election 2008: A Collection of Newspaper Front Pages Selected by the Poynter Institute

By The Poynter Institute

Book Overview

"For sheer fun, the best of the commemoratives is President Obama: A Collection of Newspaper Front Pages from the Poynter Institute." --The Philadelphia Inquirer

New York Times Best-Seller -- Revised to include newspaper front pages from the day after the inauguration!The election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States was a worldwide historic event resulting in perhaps some of the most important front pages in US history. President Obama Election 2008 is a collection of over seventy November 5th, 2008 and January 20, 2009 newspaper front pages from around the world. There is no better statement of the emotion, excitement, and significance of these moments in history.

During his campaign for the White House, Barack Obama garnered an almost frenzied following. President Obama Election 2008 is a cherished keepsake or gift for any of the millions of Americans who cast their vote for the 44th President of the United States. Here is the must-have commemorative book on this historic event.

* Features 109 historic newspaper front-pages from the day after the election and the day after the inauguration, including international, campus, and ethnic publications.

* Includes an introduction by Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau.

* Compiled by The Poynter Institute, a non-profit, non-partisan school of journalism.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0740784838
• ISBN13: 9780740784835
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.2" x 12.0"

Customer Reviews

OBAMA NEWSPAPER FRONT PAGES

I AM AN OBAMA FAN AND THE NEWSPAPER FRONT PAGES FROM AROUND THE WORLD IS A WONDERFUL BOOK TO HAVE IN MY COLLECTION. THE PRODUCT AND DELIVERY TIME WAS ON POINT. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

A little bit of a great story

This is a very simple formula, exceedingly well done. The content is exactly as described and the production standards are very high, from the choice of front pages to the printing which allows me, with my glasses on, to read nearly all the texts on the front pages. It would have been so easy to cobble something together to make a quick buck on the back of the Obama "brand". The Poynter Institute have done exactly the opposite: no short-cuts in sight. Generations to come will get the same pleasure as I do from this little bit of History.

Obama Newspaper Covers

Received product very quickly. Excellent coffe table book and history memento. Wonderful collection of newspaper cover pages worldwide November 5, 2008.

Savour It!

From the triumphant front page headlines and photos of the Denver Rock Mountain News and the Flemish-language DeMorgen in Brussels, to the grudging short shrift of The BG News of the state university in Bowling Green, Tennessee, or the sour acknowledgement of an 'economic crisis' and ohbytheway-Obama-won of The Wall Street Journal, this souvenir book reproduces the front pages of 75 newspapers around the world, all expressing the mood of their readerships on the morning after the election of the 44th President of the United States. The dominant mood is exultation, and for once I get to share in it. I have clear memories of the election of every US President from Eisenhower's first term to the disastrous re-election of W four years ago, and this is the first time I've ever felt like owning a keepsake of the victory to pass on to children and grandchildren. Hope is here, and for me the 'hope' is that 'change' will indeed follow. Obama's inaugural address, which I've just heard, was impressively stern and earnest. The gist of it, to me, was the message that change in America begins with the minds and behavior of Americans, abandoning the silly ideological positioning of the past administrations - all of them - from Reagan to W, and turning to pragmatic solutions to real problems of maldistribution, intolerance, and egomaniacal greed. I was thrilled, personally, to hear him include "non-believers" among the citizenry along with Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Hindus. And I was overjoyed to hear his commitment to the restoration of science to the councils of government. It feels good, my friends, not to be disgusted and alienated from the democratic process.

We work for the things that matter

My Mom, I got this for my mom. A person that tells me, as I give it to her, that she thinks it's best to give it to my daughter who has decided to become a journalist...this totally making my mom a happy little old crudgmudeony fact checker. Mom, who lived a very interesting long life (stationed in Montgomery, Alabama in service just as once all this important history was made) and in her 80's has joined me in crying buckets ALL this week. We can't even remotely keep it together. I'm so teared up I can barely grin from ear to ear. But I saw this impulsively buying it for her as a keepsake. Perfect. She is a newspaperclipper. Now a print out internet paper keeper. We have I'd say 150 boxes of clippings from her diligent work over the last 15 years. It's organized, collated, slipped in plastic covers and nails a heck of a lot of folks on subjects ranging from oil, to corruption, racists, her thing about serial killers, Kennedy boxes...so on. No one can ever get you to the bottom of our rather question needing history overseas like she can, trust me on this. And I add she trusts very few. And they aren't in office anymore. But we have John Glenn's signature on the headlines on his 1st flight. Did you know if you send these things to public servants with envelopes and requests they often send them back to you...autographed...Mom keeps these because she doesn't trust us. The free press she says, is everything. Mom pointed out to me something immediately about this terrific book. This collection of front pages from newspapers on Election Day 2008 was chosen by the Poynter Institute. She says to me on seeing this word Poynter, "Can it be?" Then followed, "It is really important to us." "Why so ?" I asked. Because it is a few short blocks from Grandma Lucas' house in St. Petersburg, where my long passed grandmum who lived in Fla was. It's next to the Dali Museum, she continued, into the story of how it was set up to keep the St. Petersburg paper free. (She's spent time there of course. I bet they'd remember her. Sorry folks.) Free of the crappy stuff you see in the press now. Set up to protect it in it's work..you can investigate this on your own. Worth it. My mother knew the meanings in her life, our life. It's been dedicated to truths like the importance of journalists and free press doing their job well. So this lovely, shiny book takes front pages from around the world and prints them well enough you can fully read them. Newspapers, cool. And it's fascinating to see the joy in these headlines of something historically wonderful finally, finally falling to our piece of earth. Well that's my feeling. Obama really was elected. Gary Trudeau (hint, hint) writes the intro, you can't go wrong if you want something to put away for the kids. After awhile I'm going to get it signed for mom. For all my life she's done this for me so I, and then my kids will have these things to have to remember.Let's hope it works like it used to! Believe me come tom