The First 80 Years: The Christian Science Monitor, 1908-1988
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The First 80 Years: The Christian Science Monitor, 1908-1988

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"I've tried to be a decent president for a decent people," says Theodore Roosevelt as Taft takes over . . . Emmeline Pankhurst finds her meeting on women's franchise canceled . . . Archduke Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated . . . World War I . . . Amelia Earhart flies Atlantic . . . the Great Depression . . . FDR and Churchill and Hitler . . . Mohandas Gandhi . . . the Marshall Plan . . . Israel launched . . . Stalin era ends . . . Korea . . . Sputnik . . . JFK . . . man on the moon . . . civil rights . . . Vietnam . . . Solidarity . . . the shuttle . . . 80 tumultuous years. History in the making - not looked back on with hindsight, but seen through the lively lens of that day's front page. The First 80 Years, The Christian Science Monitor 1908 - 1988 packs an unusual impact: It offers an instant "eye on the news" as well as a very particular range of vision. The Monitor was founded during the early years of this century with what remains a unique purpose: "To injure no man, but to

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