September 11, 2001

By Max Frankel and Poynter Institute for Media Studies

Book Overview

On Tuesday September 11, our world changed forever. The United States was attacked by an unknown terrorist organization. Word of this attack spread instantaneously around the world. Billions of people woke up on September 12 to find that the front page of their local newspaper was devoted to the tragedy of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. September 11, 2001 is a collection of 150 front pages of major newspapers throughout the world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0740724924
• ISBN13: 9780740724923
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.0" x 11.9"

Customer Reviews

Beyond interesting

Seeing the front pages from around the country was very interesting. The ones that got nasty and used words like Bastard where the most interesting. Must have book about 9/11. But be sure you know before you buy, this just has FRONT PAGES of newspapers, no stories.

Interesting for news buffs and others!

If you were wondering what various newspapers said on 9/11, this is the book for you. High quality paper, it is a very well done publication to immortalize the headlines after the attack on American soil.

Remember the World Trade Center, Pentagon, & Pennsylvania!!!

Just as December 7, 1941 was remembered as "a date that will livein infamy" and "Remember Pearl Harbor!" became the battle cry of our Nation, so, too, will this date and these places become etched in the annals of the United States of America. This bookrepresents a stunning collection of the front pages of newspapersacross the nation as well as around the world reporting and depicting the events of this fateful day in our history. Page after page reveals the shock and horror experienced by all people who lived through that day. This book will be a historical record for future generations who will look back on these times in attempting to understand our collective experience. I highly recommend obtaining this book to pass on to your children and their children's children as a reminder of the evil which is ever present in this world.

A historical record to preserve

(...) This is not a collection of photos of the 9/11 tragedies, per se, but a collection of 9/12 newspaper front pages from nearly all the major US dailies, the biggest national papers (USA Today, WSJ, Christian Science Monitor), plus several major newspapers from around the world. Horrible as the events of that day were, it is interesting (and revelatory in some cases) to see how the events were covered. Obviously the NYC and Washington newspapers had a special closeness to the events but there is plenty to learn from reviewing the coverage in distant cities and small towns across North America, by US allies and traditionally non-allied nations (and even a few enemy states), and of editorial decisions about headline phrasing and photo selection. In a way, a book like this makes a case, for better or worse, for the world as global village. Not for the feint-hearted, perhaps, but an interesting collection and certainly worth preserving.