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It is hard to imagine a magazine that has compiled a more comprehensive history of the last century than Time magazine. Now, through the efforts of writers Norberto Angeletti and Alberto Oliva, we have a similar full and robust history of the magazine itself.

Interestingly, in this era of internet news aggregators (Google news anyone?), Time magazine actually began as an aggregator itself. The book details the origins of the magazine by a pair of 25 year old Yalies (Henry Luce and Briton Hadden - Hadden died in the magazine's first decade in print) who, beginning with their first issue in March of 1923, created a compendium of news articles from popular magazines of the day (The Atlantic Monthly, Le Figaro, the New Republic and others) eventually leading to their own world-class reportage that has summarized weekly events for over eight decades.

The book does an excellent job of detailing the development of the `world's most influential magazine' from both it's written and photographic history. Of note is the obvious visual growth of the magazine from the early charcoal drawing of notables of the day, to the famous red border version of the magazine that still lives on today. From illustrators, like cover collage maker, Boris Artzybasheff, portrait artist Robert Vickrey, or contemporary artists like Warhol, Lichtenstein and Rauschenberg, to the top-flight photographers - from Dorothea Lange to David Hume Kennerly to Matt Mahurin - to Nigel Holmes' charts of `info-graphics' to illustrate the news, Time magazine's portrayal of weekly events has as much to do with it's illustrative graphics as it does with it's long history of award-winning journalism.

It's impossible not to argue that the history of Time is the history of the world of the 20th century and it's focus on the influence of major world leaders is well evidenced in this volume. From the great depression, to World War II and well into the 21st century, Time's focus has been not only on world events, but on the political and thought leaders that created our view of the world. Lindburgh, Hitler, FDR, Einstein, Stalin, the Kennedy's and hundreds more were the subject of timely cover portraits depicted here as well as coverage of trends from Hollywood to civil rights, Vietnam to the space program, this compendium of Time magazine's coverage of history, is history, in and of itself.

Supplementing the splendid coverage of the magazine's history in this 432 page, coffee table sized edition, are a host of special guest essays from the likes of Henry Grunwald, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Steven Speilberg, Walter Issacson and others revealing their perspective of the magazine's coverage from their own unique vantage points. Dividing the magazine's history into three distinct parts (including a look into the future of Time in the cyberage of the web, Kindle and iPhones) as well as offering plentiful coverage of features like Time's signature `Person of the Year' award, `Time: The Illustrated History of the World's Most Influential Magazine' does an exemplary job of capturing the deep history of both the journalistic chronicler of our times and therefore the actual history of our times itself. A major work on all fronts.

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