{"product_id":"9781579129330","title":"The New York Times: The Times of the Eighties: The Culture, Politics, and Personalities that Shaped the Decade","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is no better record of history than the archives of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrganized by sections such as politics, business, science \u0026amp; health, sports, arts \u0026amp; 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 \u003ci\u003eE.T.\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTerminator\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRaging Bull\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTootsie\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrimes 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHundreds of color photographs from \u003ci\u003ethe Times\u003c\/i\u003e and other sources illuminate the stories throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Dog \u0026 Leventhal Publishers, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47045458002160,"sku":"9781579129330","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781579129330_p0.jpg?v=1763800808","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781579129330","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}