Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Keeping it honest 1977-1986
A man of his times
Do this for me
The tenth floor
Dead ends
Winners and sinners
Upward and onward
Part II: The newsroom 1986-1994
Changing course
Two hundred miles
The shoe at home
Palm Beach
Not punch
The next horizon
A timex watch
Part III: A reporter's editor 1994-2001
Marching around my head
"Our Jackie Robinson"
Newspaper dot com
No cigar
Please read this column
Renegades
Part IV: A passing storm 2001-2003
Tête d'Armée
A terrible beauty
Custer's horse
At swords' point
House on fire
Raw talent
A room filled with gas
Losing the newsroom
Part V: Transitions 2003-2011
The cure for what ailed us
The second choice
In the national interest
Hand on the wheel
A painful legacy
Mother times
Paying the bills
A digital divide
Part VI: Change 2011-2016
A tiger on the news
No Switzerland
The pivot
Diplomat

In The Times, Adam Nagourney, who's worked at The New York Times since 1996, examines four decades of the newspaper's history, from the final years of Arthur "Punch" Sulzberger's reign as publisher to the election of Donald Trump in November 2016. Nagourney recounts the paper's triumphs--the coverage of September 11, the explosion of the U.S. Challenger, the scandal of a New York governor snared in a prostitution case--as well as failures that threatened the paper's standing and reputation, including the discredited coverage of the war in Iraq, the resignation of Judith Miller, the plagiarism scandal of Jayson Blair, and the high-profile ouster of two of its executive editors. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents and letters contained in the newspaper's archives and the private papers of editors and reporters, The Times is an inside look at the essential years that shaped the newspaper. Nagourney paints a vivid picture of a divided newsroom, fraught with tension as it struggled to move into the digital age, while confronting its scandals, shortcomings, and swelling criticism from conservatives and many of its own readers alike. Along the way we meet the memorable personalities--including Abe Rosenthal, Max Frankel, Howell Raines, Joe Lelyveld, Bill Keller, Jill Abramson, Dean Baquet, Punch Sulzberger and Arthur Sulzberger Jr.--who shaped the paper as we know it today. We see the battles between the newsroom and the business operations side, the fight between old and new media, the tension between journalists who tried to hold on to the traditional model of a print newspaper and a new generation of reporters who are eager to embrace the new digital world. Immersive, meticulously researched, and filled with powerful stories of the rise and fall of the men and women who ran the most important newspaper in the nation, The Times is a definitive account of the most pivotal years in New York Times history.