New edition of the national blockbuster and New York Times bestseller—with more than a dozen new front pages, including Obama’s election and inauguration, his first trip abroad, the financial meltdown, Madoff, and more. One of the most popular gift books of the 2008 holiday season now includes the history-making Obama front pages and so much more. The book and three accompanying DVDs contain new front pages through May 2009. The nearly 55,000 pages in the book and… More >>
The New York Times:The Complete Front Pages 1851-2009 Updated Edition
We bought this book for our Dad, who is 70-something. He now has trouble going to bed because he can’t put this book down! It’s probably the best gift we’ve ever gotten ’someone who has everything and needs nothing!’
Rating: 5 / 5
The book is just what it professes to be, selected covers of the New York Time’s front page. The print is very, very small and hard to read, but fascinating if you can read it. I have not tried the CD’s as yet, and have high hopes that the computer can enlarge the type.
Rating: 3 / 5
It would be wonderful to be able to easily access the content provided, but, as a glasses wearer, it is awkward. In the book, it’s understandable that the print is small, I suppose. It already a tome in incorporating what it does. But I had hoped that the DVD’s would be resolvable at a larger print type. Instead, legible tiny print that can be read by the patient reader holding a magnifying glass to the computer screen dissolves at a larger size into dots. Help!
Rating: 3 / 5
The DVD’s are amzing, but despite the improvement some front pages seem to be missing : The Western editions of February and March 1963 (during a strike), despite the fact that articles exist for those dates according to the New York Times archives. Still, wonderful product.
Rating: 5 / 5
Despite the fact that the New York Times is not my favorite paper with its liberal bias, I am also a history buff, and I love old newspapers and magazines. So last Christmas I ran out and bought the 2008 edition. Although enjoyable, it was missing several months (including my daughters birth month of Septmeber 1994, to my disappointment), and trying to read many of the older issues was very difficult.
I’m happy to report that the 2009 edition not only includes the missing months, but to my surprise many of the more difficult papers to read have somehow been “cleaned up”. I don’t know how they did it, but i just compared the Sept 24 1851 paper in the two editions and it’s like night and day, much easier to read in the new edition. Also as in the old edition you can easily access the NYT archive to continue reading a front page article or read the articles in the other pages of that newspaper. A very nice feature.
If you were disappointed with the 2008 edition, I would recommend getting this revised edition.
Rating: 5 / 5