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<title>
June 03, 1991: From The Publisher
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
June 03, 1991 Date Rape
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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<p> It is said that journalism is a first rough draft of history.
If so, then some news events are of such lasting significance
that they deserve a second draft. Last January, as allied
bombers launched a massive airborne offensive against Iraq, it
became clear to Joanne Pello, a vice president of the Time Inc.
Book Co., that the stream of words and images appearing in
TIME's pages were the grist of a good book. Pello discussed the
possibility with her colleagues and then approached us. "We
realized that this was a subject in which TIME had particular
photographic and editorial expertise," she recalls.
</p>
<p> In the past we've published books on photojournalism, the
presidential campaign of 1988, the rise of Soviet President Mi
khail Gorbachev, and the 1989 Chinese army attack in Tiananmen
Square. This idea clearly belonged to that tradition. Senior
writer Otto Friedrich was quickly named editor and charged with
selecting a staff of writers and correspondents to contribute
to the book, in addition to their magazine duties. As a team of
production typesetters rushed to work out the technical details,
graphics director Nigel Holmes began to plan the book's maps and
charts.
</p>
<p> Fortunately--and this is a real luxury for magazine
journalists--we could wait until the war was over, and events
began to move into historical perspective, before we sent the
chapters off to press. The result of these efforts is Desert
Storm: The War in the Persian Gulf, a 240-page hardback volume
that began appearing in bookstores last week. The book, which
is being published by the Time Inc. Book Co. and distributed by
Little, Brown and Co., contains 129 color and black-and-white
illustrations, many of which have never been published in the
U.S.
</p>
<p> Friedrich, whose 12th book, a portrait of Paris in the
time of the artist Edouard Manet, will be published next
spring, found that TIME's traditional blend of detail and
analysis served him well on Desert Storm. "I edited the book
much the same way I have edited at TIME," he says. "There's a
different time frame, and the chapters are longer than a TIME
article, but the essential spirit of the thing is the same: the
attitude of reasonably objective observers describing what we
have seen or learned." And, we might add, enjoying the luxury
of sufficient time to write a second draft.
</p>
<p>-- Robert L. Miller
</p>
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