Geoffrey C. Ward

Geoffrey C. Ward (A Disposition to Be Rich, Baseball, Jazz, Mark Twain, The Civil War, The War, Unforgivable Blackness, Ken Burns's The Civil War Deluxe eBook (Enhanced Edition), The Roosevelts, Before the Trumpet, A First Class Temperament, The Comeback, The Roosevelts)
Ken Burns (Horatio's Drive, Lewis & Clark, The national parks, Baseball, Jazz, Mark Twain, The Civil War, The War, Ken Burns's The Civil War Deluxe eBook (Enhanced Edition), The Roosevelts, The Roosevelts)

Geoffrey C. Ward is the author of seventeen books, including three focused on FDR: Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882–1905; A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt (which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize); and Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley. A longtime collaborator with Ken Burns, he has also won seven Emmys and written twenty-seven historical documentaries for PBS, either on his own or in collaboration with others, including The Roosevelts: An Intimate History.
Ken Burns, director and producer of The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, has been making documentary films for more than thirty-five years. Since the Academy Award–nominatedBrooklyn Bridge in 1981, Burns has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made, including The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, The War, and The national parks: America’s Best Idea. Burns’s films have been honored with dozens of major awards, including thirteen Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and two Oscar nominations; and in September 2008, at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, Burns was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a Lifetime Achievement Award.Ken Burns is represented by Random House Speakers Bureau (http://www.rhspeakers.com). (afegit de Random House)… (més)

Willard InterContinental and Politics & Prose Literary Series

Enjoy lunch with acclaimed producer and documentary film maker Ken Burns as he discusses one of America's most beloved families: The Roosevelts. Ken Burns presents an extraordinarily personal portrait of America's greatest political family and its enormous impact on our nation in The Roosevelts, the tie-in volume to the PBS documentary to air in the fall of 2014. This revelatory book is an "intimate" history of three extraordinary individuals from the same extraordinary family—Theodore, Eleanor, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

The Willard InterContinental celebrates its literary roots partnering with famed Washington, D.C. independent bookstore, Politics & Prose on a series of teas and luncheons with notable authors and thinkers. The Series is a nod to the Willard’s literary history as the home away from home for such legendary writers as Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson and Julia Ward Howe. The Series is curated by Politics & Prose, D.C.’s premiere independent bookstore celebrating thirty years in 2014.

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This event is an author talk with Q&A. Estimated time is 60 – 75 minutes. Doors and will call open at 11 a.m. No photos. Burns will personalize books.

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Geoffrey C. Ward (A Disposition to Be Rich, Baseball, Jazz, Mark Twain, The Civil War, The War, Unforgivable Blackness, Ken Burns's The Civil War Deluxe eBook (Enhanced Edition), The Roosevelts, Before the Trumpet, A First Class Temperament, The Comeback, The Roosevelts)
Ken Burns (Horatio's Drive, Lewis & Clark, The national parks, Baseball, Jazz, Mark Twain, The Civil War, The War, Ken Burns's The Civil War Deluxe eBook (Enhanced Edition), The Roosevelts, The Roosevelts)

Geoffrey C. Ward is the author of seventeen books, including three focused on FDR: Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882–1905; A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt (which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize); and Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley. A longtime collaborator with Ken Burns, he has also won seven Emmys and written twenty-seven historical documentaries for PBS, either on his own or in collaboration with others, including The Roosevelts: An Intimate History.
Ken Burns, director and producer of The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, has been making documentary films for more than thirty-five years. Since the Academy Award–nominatedBrooklyn Bridge in 1981, Burns has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made, including The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, The War, and The national parks: America’s Best Idea. Burns’s films have been honored with dozens of major awards, including thirteen Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and two Oscar nominations; and in September 2008, at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, Burns was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a Lifetime Achievement Award.Ken Burns is represented by Random House Speakers Bureau (http://www.rhspeakers.com). (afegit de Random House)… (més)

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History Ken Burns and Geoffrey C. Ward “Not only the greatest documentarian of the day, but also the most influential filmmaker period” (The Baltimore Sun), Ken Burns has opened the doors of American history for millions of people. With an intimately personal yet grand style of storytelling, his films have resurrected the people and events both mythologized and lost to history. His documentaries include Baseball, Jazz, The Dustbowl, Brooklyn Bridge, and the landmark series The Civil War. His films have won 12 Emmy Awards and have twice been nominated for Oscars. A seven-part program that follows Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt for more than a century, Burns’s new series airs on PBS this fall. Geoffrey C. Ward, Burns’ longtime collaborator, is the principal writer of The Civil War, Jazz, Baseball, and 13 other of the director’s PBS documentaries. For his work he has won seven Emmy Awards. Ward is also author of A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award for biography, as well as more than a dozen other books whose themes range from East Indian culture to Mark Twain. Tickets on sale August 22 at 10:00 AM! Limit 2 tickets per person Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway) This is a TICKETED event; $15 General Admission, $7 Students. For more information, please call 215-567-4341, or click here

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The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

Documentarian Burns talks about his new PBS series and the companion volume with the same name. This event is sold out, but call us at 847 446-8880 to order an autographed book.

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