New York Times: The Complete Front Pages: 1851-2008

By The New York Times

This stunning and cutting-edge package provides access to the world as reflected in its most influential and respected newspaper. From wars and political assassinations to social movements and space exploration, all the news that is fit to print'or download'can be found in this extraordinary book-and-DVD set. More than 300 of the most significant New York Times front pages have been carefully selected and beautifully reproduced in the book. Read the headlines and stories covering such world-changing events as Abraham Lincoln's assassination, Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, and the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Ten foldouts present twenty key front pages at their magnificent full size. News summaries throughout highlight the most significant events of each era and put the front pages into a historical context. Seventeen insightful essays by prominent Times writers comment on pivotal moments, including "The End of Slavery" by William Safire, "Women's Suffrage" by Gail Collins, and "The Age of Television" by Frank Rich. The 3 DVDs include each of the 54,266 front pages printed by the Times over the past 157 years. Completely searchable and user-friendly, the disks are designed to provide access to the full stories that made front-page news each day since the paper's founding in 1851. Click on a page'the day you were born, for example'and you're instantly transported to the Times' online archive. The New York Times: The Complete Front Pages is the ultimate gift for history buffs, news junkies, students, and anyone who strives to be well-informed. DVD-ROMs run on a PC (Windows 2000/XP or later) or Mac (OSX I0.4.8 or later) with Adobe 8.o or later. Free download available on the DVD-ROMs.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579127495
• ISBN13: 9781579127497
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 8.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 15.0" x 1.8" x 12.3"

Customer Reviews

NY Times The Complete Front Pages

Product received within promised time frame and in good condition. Excellent and informative presentation.

wonderful book

Hi, julia here It was breath takeing got the book for christmas. from my husband. love the size and info. and i love big books anyway. full of info. it,s a must have!!!!!! love it love it love it... 1/6/2009.N.J. upperdeerfield.

Excellent collection

We bought this awesome book for our son who immediately upon receiving it looked for the most important headlines in the last 50 years. A great book!

Small Print!

This book CD set is a real window on history. It gives the modern viewer a real look at the issues of past times. The Print however is very small. The publisher was very thoughtful to include a magnifing sheet in the back of the book. My family will get many hours of enjoyment and eduction from this set. Thanks

Wow! What a fabulous and lavishly printed treasure.

The New York Times has been one of the top resources for news for more than 150 years. Despite its recent economic and editorial woes, and despite what some claim to be the declining importance of actual newspapers, I remain a firm believer in the value of daily physically printed newspapers. There is real value in having news gathered and printed on a daily basis by organizations of professional journalists. Not only do they inform the public in a more coherent way than the random impressions vibrating from the Web, they also provide a lasting record of what happened on a given day and what was thought about those events at the time they happened. You cannot rely on what we think of past events today as connected in any way to how events were regarded by those who lived them. I am very saddened to see the way the role of our daily newspapers are being diminished and am troubled that young people are not picking up the habit of reading daily newspapers in their printed form. This lavish edition rewards its readers in several ways. First the print edition provides more than 300 important front pages of key historical events (the Emancipation Proclamation, Pearl Harbor, Oswald being shot, to name just three). While all are given at least full page printing in this very large format book, some are given a heavy stock foldout that shows the page in a more true to life format. The book also includes a plastic sheet magnifier that makes reading even the smallest print on the page much easier for those of us with less than perfect visual acuity. The book also has periodic sections that provide important photos, editorial cartoons, and mini-essays that explain the selection of the images and why they help us better understand that period in history. When the times introduced color images, the book also switches to color printing (better quality than you get in the paper). The book also provides three DVDs with all 54,000 plus front pages that have been printed by the New York Times since its inception through 2008 (except for the periods the Times was on strike, obviously). If you are a subscriber to the times, you also can use links from these DVDs to get to the full articles in every one of these papers. However, if you don't subscribe, you have access but it is limited in period and by volume. There is a coupon for getting a subscription to the Times at 50% off for 26 weeks. If you think about it, that discount more than pays for the book (if you want the subscription to the paper). This book is remarkable and can help you in many ways from satisfying idle curiosity through digging pretty seriously into what the Times had to say about important events for the past century and a half. Strongly recommended. Reviewed by Craig Matteson, Ann Arbor, MI