The paper (1986)

The life and death of the New York Herald Tribune, the elegant rival to the Times that closed in 1966. Kluger worked there in its final years, and his long book follows the paper from its nineteenth-century roots to its last edition. Reviewers hailed it as perhaps the best book ever written about an American newspaper; it was a National Book Award finalist and won a George Polk Award. Big, but it reads like a family saga.