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The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945

The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945 more books like this

by Geoffrey C Ward, Ken Burns (Read by)

Enriched by maps and hundreds of photographs, the companion volume to the forthcoming PBS series, "The War" is the story of World War II captured in the hearts, minds, words, and deeds of those who made history at its most essential level: on the battlefields and on the homefront.

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The Civil War: An Illustrated History

The Civil War: An Illustrated History more books like this

by Geoffrey C Ward, Ric Burns, Ken Burns

This companion volume to the highly successful PBS series contains the same inventive methods used by Ken Burns and his team in that famous PBS documentary: a strong narrative and a graphically rich selection of maps, newspapers, paintings, and over 500 vintage photographs--all of which make this history lesson an enjoyably enlightening experience ...

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The West : an illustrated history

The West : an illustrated history more books like this

by Geoffrey C. Ward

The companion volume to the eight-part television series. The book focuses on the 19th century and features over 450 photographs, newly commissioned maps, first-person accounts and letters, and commentary by noted historians.

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Closest Companion: He Unknown Story of the Intimate Relationship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley

Closest Companion: He Unknown Story of the Intimate Relationship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley more books like this

by Geoffrey C Ward

An eminent historian and biographer, Ward has woven the diaries and letters, discovered after Margaret Suckley's death in 1991 in a battered suitcase under her bed, into a love story unlike any other. As affecting as it is eye-opening, this book provides dramatic new insight into the private life of one of this century's greatest presidents.

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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson more books like this

by Geoffrey C Ward

In this companion biography to the Ken Burns PBS television special, historian Geoffrey Ward tells of the life and times of the first African American to become the heavyweight boxing champion. Jack Johnson was a great athlete whose flamboyant lifestyle and prideful bearing engendered a strong reaction among the public in early 20th-century ...

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Jazz: A History of America's Music

Jazz: A History of America's Music more books like this

by Geoffrey C Ward, Ken Burns

Continuing in the tradition of "The Civil War" and "Baseball", Burns and Ward look into the heart and soul of America to explore the history of a quintessentially American music--jazz. Through words and photos, readers meet Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald, and a host of other jazz greats in this ...

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Baseball: An Illustrated History

Baseball: An Illustrated History more books like this

by Kenneth Burns, Geoffrey C Ward

From the authors and creators of "The Civil War," "Baseball: An Illustrated History" is the companion volume to the acclaimed public television series. In photographs, interviews, essays, and histories, the authors explore the national pastime from the mid-19th century to the present day. Many of the 'stars' from the televison series--John "Buck" ...

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A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt more books like this

by Geoffrey Ward

Drawing upon thousands of original documents as well as interviews with Roosevelt family members and others who knew Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt intimately, this book provides a vivid, unsentimental, sometimes startling biography of the young lawyer who became our thirty-second president.

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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes

All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes more books like this

by Robert Hunt Rhodes, Geoffrey C Ward (Foreword by), Elisha Hunt Rhodes

Anyone who heard these diaries of a common Union soldier excerpted on the PBS-TV documentary The Civil War will recognize Elisha Hunt Rhodes' accounts of campaigns from Bull Run to Appomattox, which remain outstanding for their clarity and detail. "This remarkable diary chronicles the career of one of the Civil War's most remarkable soldiers".- ...

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Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life

Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life more books like this

by Wynton Marsalis, Geoffrey C Ward

The Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz musician and composer explores how an understanding of jazz can lead to deeper, more original ways of being, living, and relating, for individuals, communities, and nations.

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Mark Twain

Mark Twain more books like this

by Geoffrey C Ward, Ken Burns, Dayton Duncan

From the authors of "Jazz, Baseball, " and "The Civil War": the first fully illustrated biography of one of the central figures of literature--the American titan who gave readers Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and "Life on the Mississippi." A companion volume to the four-hour PBS television series. 150 illustrations, 40 in color.

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The West more books like this

by Geoffrey C Ward

The companion volume to the eight-part television series. The book focuses on the 19th century and features over 450 photographs, newly commissioned maps, first-person accounts and letters, and commentary by noted historians.

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The Civil War: The Complete Text of the Bestselling Narrative History of the Civil War--Based on the Celebrated PBS Television Series more books like this

by Geoffrey C Ward, Ken Burns, Ric Burns

This companion volume to the highly successful PBS series contains the same inventive methods used by Ken Burns and his team in that famous PBS documentary: a strong narrative and a graphically rich selection of maps, newspapers, paintings, and over 500 vintage photographs--all of which make this history lesson an enjoyably enlightening experience ...

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Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905 more books like this

by Geoffrey C Ward

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All for the Union more books like this

by Robert H Rhodes (Editor), Stephen Topping (Editor), Geoffrey C Ward (Foreword by)

Elisha Hunt Rhodes was a Union soldier who survived every major campaign of the Civil War. His diary is an eloquent eyewitness account of events that shaped a nation. All for the Union is history in its purest, most immediate form. 70 illustrations.

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Baseball: An Illustrated History more books like this

by Geoffrey C Ward, Ken Burns

From the authors and creators of "The Civil War," "Baseball: An Illustrated History" is the companion volume to the acclaimed public television series. In photographs, interviews, essays, and histories, the authors explore the national pastime from the mid-19th century to the present day. Many of the 'stars' from the televison series--John "Buck" ...

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Kindred Souls: The Devoted Friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and Dr. David Gurewitsch more books like this

by Edna P Gurewitsch, Geoffrey C Ward (Introduction by)

Edna Gurewitsch, the wife of Eleanor Roosevelt's doctor David Gurewitsch, compiled this book about the close relationship between the first lady and her physician. Here she draws on memories and correspondence to portray a friendship.

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Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony more books like this

by Geoffrey C Ward, Martha Saxton (Contributions by), Ann D Gordon (Contributions by)

This dual-biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony focuses on their 50-year working relationship on behalf of women's rights. As feminism's "first wave", Cady Stanton and Anthony are often given credit for setting in motion the effort for women's suffrage, which was to culminate, after their deaths, in the passage of the 19th ...

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American Originals: The Private Worlds of Some Singular Men and Women more books like this

by Geoffrey C Ward

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Together: How We Belong more books like this

by Geoffrey C. Ward, Dave Barry, Troll Associates

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Black Bird Fly Away: Disabled in an Able-Bodied World more books like this

by Hugh Gregory Gallagher, Geoffrey C. Ward

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The Civil War more books like this

by Geoffrey C Ward

This companion volume to the highly successful PBS series contains the same inventive methods used by Ken Burns and his team in that famous PBS documentary: a strong narrative and a graphically rich selection of maps, newspapers, paintings, and over 500 vintage photographs--all of which make this history lesson an enjoyably enlightening experience ...

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Who Invented the Game more books like this

by Geoffrey C Ward, Lynn Novick, Paul Robert Walker

An official companion volume to Ken Burns's much-heralded PBS-TV documentary on baseball, Who Invented the Game? is a fascinating history of America's great national pastime and how it came to be played the way it is today--a history as colorful and complicated as the history of the nation itself. Illustrated with dozens of dramatic archival ...

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The Best American Essays 1996 more books like this

by Geoffrey C Ward (Editor), Robert Atwan (Editor)

In this lively, outstanding group of essays with a slightly different twist--one that looks out instead of in--Amitav Ghosh visits New Delhi during a moment of social upheaval; Change-Rae Lee welcomes readers into his family kitchen; Gerald Early analyzes the Afrocentric dream of a world without whites; Jonathan Raban hears "the last call of the ...

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Off the Record with FDR: 1942-1945 more books like this

by William D Hassett, Jonathan Daniels (Introduction by), Geoffrey C Ward (Preface by)

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