The New York Times Great Stories of the Century The Major Events of the 20th Century as Reported in the Pages of The New York Times
It is really neat... and large, prolly 12"x16"x2". The whole book is composed of issues of the Times from 1900-1999. Key dates in history. It contains the entire pages of the paper, including the inside pages with related stories. you can see everything that was going on that day.
Starting with the death of Queen Victoria
McKinley assasination
SF quake
Wright flight
Titanic
South pole discovery
Scopes Trial
Market Crash
All WARs
Space Race
3 mile island
Columbia
Challenger
Chernobyl
88 article on Y2K
Oklahoma bombing
Clinton impeachment
All told about 120 key events in history are covered. All this book is is the articles. No commentary or anything. History as reported...
and $13 at Barnes and Noble... A must for any history buff
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