The Century, Peter Jenning & Todd Brewster ,First Edition, Hardcover Coffee Table Book November 10, 1998 Double Day

The Century, Peter Jenning & Todd Brewster ,First Edition, Hardcover  Coffee Table Book November 10, 1998 Double Day .

The condition is very good.   I would like to say excellent but it had been at the bottom of a stack of heavy book and there is a very slight warping of the book board.   Not so much to make it not valuable.  But just enough so that I should mention it.  Then the right upper corner of the dust jacket has a small fold crease.    All the pages inside are excellent.  

Product Details Hardcover: 624 pages Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (November 10, 1998) Language: English ISBN-10: 0385483279 ISBN-13: 978-0385483278 Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 9.5 x 1.7 inches Shipping Weight: 5.8 pounds Overview   What was it like to watch the Wright Brothers soar into the sky? To hear the first crackling voice aired on the radio? To cower in the ghastly trenches of Europe during World War I? To lose everything in the stock-market crash of 1929, or experience the birth of rock and roll? To watch the Berlin Wall divide East and West, and then, twenty-eight years later, to see it fall under the weight of tens of thousands seeking to taste freedom? For the past seven years, researchers, reporters, and producers for ABC News have searched the world's archives for the rarest and most stunning photographs and images, consulted eminent twentieth-century historians, and discovered and interviewed hundreds of eyewitnesses and participants in the significant moments of the most eventful one hundred years in human history.   The result is this spectacular book, the independent companion volume to the landmark ABC News and The History Channel television series The Century.  Co-written by ABC News Anchor Peter Jennings and Senior Editorial Producer Todd Brewster, The Century features a narrative of extraordinary quality that tracks major themes—the impact of technology, the soaring of the imagination, the ghastly violence, the joy of entertainment—through chronological chapters recounting the signal moments of each era in the century.  From "Seeds of Change: 1901-1914" to "Machine Dreams: 1990-1999," each chapter is threaded through with fascinating first-person accounts of the great events of the twentieth  century, and illustrated with over five hundred color and black-and-white photographs (many never published before)reproduced in exquisite depth and clarity.   The Century presents history as it was lived, and as it will be remembered for the next hundred years.  Here is a keepsake volume destined to be an essential part of every family's library: an epic journey through the last hundred years, whose heroes are our grandparents, our parents, ourselves.