Geoffrey C. Ward
Författare till The Civil War: An Illustrated History
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Geoffrey C. Ward is an author, historian, and screenwriter. He has written for numerous documentary films, and has won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Francis Parkman Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Geoffrey Champion Ward was born in 1940 in Newark, Ohio. He was a visa mer graduate of Oberlin College in 1962. He is an editor, author, historian and writer of scripts for American history documentaries for public television. He is the author or co-author of 18 books, including five companion books to the documentaries he has written. He is the winner of seven Emmy Awards. He was the founding editor of Audience Magazine (1970-1973) and the editor of American Heritage Magazine (1977-1982). His 1989 biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, A First-class Temperament: the Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, won 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. The principal writer of the television mini-series The Civil War, Ward has collaborated with its co-producer Ken Burns on most of the documentaries he has made since, including Jazz, Baseball, The War and Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. This work has earned him five Emmy Awards. He also won two Emmys for the American Experience series, including The Kennedys, in 1992 and TR,The Story of Theodore Roosevelt in 1996. His script for the documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, won the Writers Guild of America Award in 2005 and the accompanying book won the 2006 William Hill Sports Book of the Year and the Anisfield-Wolf Award for best biography. His works include The War: An Intimate History, Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz can Change Your Life and Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. His title The Roosevelts: An Intimate History made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2014. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Geoffrey C. Ward
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (1999) 211 exemplar
Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley (1995) 107 exemplar
A Disposition to Be Rich: How a Small-Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street… (2012) 87 exemplar
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony [1999 Documentary] (1999) — Screenwriter — 49 exemplar
American Experience: Abraham & Mary Lincoln: A House Divided [2001 TV episode] (2001) — Screenwriter — 20 exemplar
The Civil War: Episode Four: Simply Murder 8 exemplar
Lincoln's Thought and the Present: Lincoln and the Law, Lincoln and His Family, Lincoln and the Right to Rise, Lincoln… (1978) 6 exemplar
Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham & The American City [2010 film] (2010) — Screenwriter — 4 exemplar
Lincoln and the right to rise 2 exemplar
Lincoln : slavery and civil rights 2 exemplar
India: Fifty Years of Independence 1 exemplar
Matters of Fact: Ollie and Old Gimlet Eye 1 exemplar
Hard Looks at Hidden History 1 exemplar
A Disposition to Be Rich: How a Small-Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash,… (2012) 1 exemplar
Audience: Mar.-Apr. 1971 1 exemplar
Douglas MacArthur: An American Soldier 1 exemplar
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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes (1985) — Förord, vissa utgåvor — 492 exemplar
I Wish I'd Been There: Twenty Historians Bring to Life Dramatic Events That Changed America (2006) — Bidragsgivare — 262 exemplar
Kindred Souls: The Devoted Friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and Dr. David Gurewitsch (2002) — Inledning — 66 exemplar
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 1989 (1988) — Author "In Review: Civil War and Nuclear War" — 27 exemplar
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1988 (1988) — Author "In Review: Vann's Private War" — 20 exemplar
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1989 (1989) — Author "FDR's Western Front Idyll" — 16 exemplar
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 1990 (1990) — Author "In Review: Roosevelt and Marshall" — 14 exemplar
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- Vedertaget namn
- Ward, Geoffrey C.
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Ward, Geoffrey Champion
- Födelsedag
- 1940-11-30
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Newark, Ohio, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Newark, Ohio, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
New York, New York, USA - Utbildning
- Oberlin College (BA|1962)
- Yrken
- editor
screenwriter
historian - Relationer
- Ward, Diane Raines (wife)
Ward, Frederick Champion (father)
Ward, Duira Rachel (mother nee Baldinger)
Burns, Ken (collaborator) - Organisationer
- Encyclopedia Britannica
American Heritage
Florentine Films
PBS - Priser och utmärkelser
- William Hill Sports Book of the Year (2006)
Friend of History Award (2006)
Writers Guild of America Award (2005)
Anisfield-Wolf Award (2005)
National Book Critics Circle Award (1989)
Francis Parkman Prize (1990) (visa alla 7)
Emmy Award (7x) - Agent
- Carl Brandt
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- 71
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- 14
- Medlemmar
- 7,597
- Popularitet
- #3,213
- Betyg
- 4.0
- Recensioner
- 66
- ISBN
- 234
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- 7
- Favoritmärkt
- 2
- Proberstenar
- 69