According to the entry at Wikipedia, this collection contains 501 daily strips published Oct. 26, 1970 to Dec. 20, 1974 and 79 Sunday strips from Dec. 27, 1970 to Dec. 22, 1974. An editor estimates this as 38% of the printed material from the period.
For thousands of readers, this was the entry point into 1970s Doonesbury, and even though it is woefully incomplete, this was a phenomenally popular book which went through about two dozen printings and is easily found in just about every used bookstore on the planet. Even though it only contains just over a third of the material from the first four years, it’s still a very good starting point.
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A few years ago, when my daughter was in High School, she borrowed my copy of The Doonesbury Chronicles, which captures the events of the early-mid 1970's.
I grew up in the era of Vietnam, Watergate, Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Gerald Ford, etc, and I thought she might need some background information.
"Oh, no thanks," she replied, "We're learning all this stuff in History Class."
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