Proceeds from sales of the books will go to The September 11th Fund.

Proceeds from sales of the books will go to The September 11th Fund.
Moments after news of the terrorist attacks flashed across TV sets and computer screens, editors at newspapers around the world began framing some of the most dramatic front pages in history.
Andrews McMeel Publishing is offering a collection of 145 of those pages, including the Sept. 12th front page of The Vindicator, selected by The Poynter Institute, a journalism school dedicated to teaching and inspiring reporters and media leaders in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Andrews McMeel Publishing, The Poynter Institute, the Associated Press and all newspapers involved will donate all profits from the book to The September 11th Fund, a campaign launched by the United Way and The New York Community Trust to help respond to the needs of the victims, their families, and communities affected by the events of Sept. 11.
The Vindicator will be selling this book, "Sept. 11, 2001," combined with its own book, "These Hundred Years," its reprise of the 20th century, for $29.90. Five dollars for every set sold will go to The September 11th Fund. The "Sept. 11" book by itself will sell for $14.95, with $2.50 being donated to the fund.
To order: The books will be available at The Vindicator front desk during business hours or can be ordered by phone at (330) 747-1471, Ext. 271. Orders can also be placed on the Web at www.vindy.com. Mail-order information is available below. "September 11, 2001" will be available by mid-December.
The pages were selected from an online gallery set up to display more than 400 front pages of extra editions published on the day of the attacks as well as front pages of newspapers printed the next day. Max Frankel, former executive editor of The New York Times, has written the foreword for "September 11, 2001." This is a condensed version of the introduction as it appears in the book:
"The Oxygen of Our Liberty"
By Max Frankel
Here lies a souvenir of horror, a blazing obituary of American innocence.
But you are also holding a testament to news, tangible evidence that urgent and reliable news is no more obsolete than hate and heroism, fear and favor.
Here atop the rubble lies a reminder that news remains the oxygen of our liberty.
Can you imagine Sept. 11, 2001, without the oft-scorned "media"?
Some might argue that the world's great communications network served to invite this nightmare, that the terrorists were looking not only to kill random thousands but also to produce a spectacle whose imagery would instantly humble the strong and empower the weak.
But only honest and reliable news media could instruct the world in its vulnerability, summon Americans to heroic acts of rescue and ignite the global search for meaning and response. Only trusted news teams could discern the nation's anxiety, spread words of hope and therapy and help to move us from numbing fear toward recovery.
Here then lies above all the ultimate demonstration of the danger that Americans invited when they lost their interest in the world beyond the self and in serious news coverage of those other realms. Another generation has been awakened, summoned to recognize that dependable news occupies a precious but vulnerable place in our society.
Every page of this book proves that news is no mere rendering of lifeless facts. (Facts galore inhabit the phone book, but not a shred of understanding.)
News is the portrayal and ordering of information in vivid image and narrative. News is the transformation of facts into stories so that they can be understood and remembered in ways that inform and instruct, even as they delight or dismay. News not only portrays events, it ranks them in some order of importance as defined by public needs and interests. And besides recounting events, meaningful news digs to discover their cause and to assess their consequence.
X"September 11, 2001: A Collection of Newspaper Front Pages Selected by the Poynter Institute," with foreword by Max Frankel (Andrew McMeel Publishing, softcover, 147 pages, $14.95).