New York Times: The Times Of The Eighties

The Grimes

From our nation's best source of in-depth daily reporting comes this sweeping retrospective of the news culture and personalities of the decade of the 1980s as told through hundreds of handselected articles and compelling original commentary in this unique and fascinating book.There is no better record of history than the archives of The New York Times. Now more than 200 articles from the great decade of the 1980s are culled from these archives and carefully curated by editor and Times writer William Grimes to create one complete compelling historical and nostalgic collection.Organized by sections such as politics business science & health sports arts & entertainment food obituaries and more The Times of the Eighties covers the biggest stories that shaped the 1980s. Articles include coverage of historic events like Wall Street's 'Black Monday' the Iran-Contra scandal Tiananmen Square the Challenger disaster the Human Genome Project the collapse of communism and the introduction of the personal computer by IBM; cultural highlights like the launch of MTV Ted Turner's establishment of CNN the Cabbage Patch doll craze reviews of movies like E.T. Terminator Raging Bull and Tootsie and features on musicians like Michael Jackson Joan Jett U2 Wham Blondie and more; plus pieces on personalities like Mikhail Gorbachev Princess Diana Ronald Reagan Margaret Thatcher Pete Rose Bill Cosby and more.The stories are penned by well-known Times writers like William Safire Frank Rich Anna Quindlen Serge Schmemann Russell Baker Nan C. Robertson Thomas L. Friedman Linda Greenhouse Bill Keller Clyde Haberman Paul Goldberger Francis X. Clines John Noble Wilford Nicholas Kristof Fox Butterfield John Rockwell Anthony Lewis and many more.Grimes guides readers through the articles he's selected with commentary that puts the stories into historical context and explores the impact that these events and individuals eventually had on the future.Hundreds of color photographs from the Times and other sources illuminate the stories throughout.>