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Books: '85 Years of Great Writing in Time'
Time Books. 560 pages. $26.95
This anthology of first rough drafts of history from the storied news weekly is not only a chronicle of our era in its own voices, but also it is a robust reaffirmation of the printed word. The pieces are eloquent and elegant, insightful and incisive. The decades unfold before us: Hitler, the coffee break, Sinatra; the polio vaccine, the moon landing, Watergate; Bill Gates, Katrina, Viagra. Each is described in a combination of social currency and an awareness of timelessness, as if the writers knew we would look back and read their words as cultural documents.
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