The New York Times BOOK REVIEW section only dated Sept. 24, 1961 

* 2nd President John Adams 

The front page has a banner heading: "In The Beginning Was John Adams" with subhead and image of John Adams. This piece by Adrienne Koch continues on multiple inside pages. See below for further details. 
Complete book review section only with 56 pages, nice condition.

Background: This September 24, 1961 issue of The New York Times Book Review is a culturally significant piece of mid-century ephemera, distinguished primarily by its front-page lead review, "In The Beginning Was John Adams," which evaluated the landmark release of the first four volumes of The Adams Papers (published by the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press). The cover feature marks a monumental moment in American historical scholarship—the first time John Adams's personal diaries and autobiographies were comprehensively unsealed and published, an archival milestone so significant that President John F. Kennedy held a White House ceremony celebrating its release just days later. What makes this issue notable is its snapshot of a pivotal shift in Founding Father historiography, capturing the exact moment Adams moved from an underappreciated, curmudgeonly historical footnote to a central pillar of early American history. In terms of rarity, standalone Sunday newsprint sections from this era are genuinely scarce because standard newsprint deteriorates rapidly and was routinely discarded.