Geoffrey C. Ward
Autor von 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 mehr anzeigen 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) weniger anzeigen
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Werke von Geoffrey C. Ward
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (1999) 215 Exemplare
Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley (1995) 108 Exemplare
A Disposition to Be Rich: How a Small-Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash,… (2012) 89 Exemplare
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony [1999 Documentary] (1999) — Screenwriter — 48 Exemplare
American Experience: Abraham & Mary Lincoln: A House Divided [2001 TV episode] (2001) — Screenwriter — 20 Exemplare
The Civil War: Episode Five: The Universe of Battle 11 Exemplare
The Civil War: Episode Four: Simply Murder 8 Exemplare
Lincoln's Thought and the Present: Lincoln and the Law, Lincoln and His Family, Lincoln and the Right to Rise, Lincoln… (1978) 6 Exemplare
Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham & The American City [2010 film] (2010) — Screenwriter — 4 Exemplare
Lincoln and the right to rise 2 Exemplare
Lincoln : slavery and civil rights 2 Exemplare
Before the Trumpet 2 Exemplare
Douglas MacArthur: An American Soldier 1 Exemplar
Audience: Mar.-Apr. 1971 1 Exemplar
Hard Looks at Hidden History 1 Exemplar
Matters of Fact: Ollie and Old Gimlet Eye 1 Exemplar
India: Fifty Years of Independence 1 Exemplar
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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes (1985) — Vorwort, einige Ausgaben — 502 Exemplare
I Wish I'd Been There: Twenty Historians Bring to Life Dramatic Events That Changed America (2006) — Mitwirkender — 264 Exemplare
Kindred Souls: The Devoted Friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and Dr. David Gurewitsch (2002) — Einführung — 66 Exemplare
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 1989 (1988) — Author "In Review: Civil War and Nuclear War" — 27 Exemplare
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1988 (1988) — Author "In Review: Vann's Private War" — 20 Exemplare
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1989 (1989) — Author "FDR's Western Front Idyll" — 16 Exemplare
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 1990 (1990) — Author "In Review: Roosevelt and Marshall" — 14 Exemplare
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Ward, Geoffrey C.
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Ward, Geoffrey Champion
- Geburtstag
- 1940-11-30
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Newark, Ohio, USA
- Wohnorte
- Newark, Ohio, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
New York, New York, USA - Ausbildung
- Oberlin College (BA|1962)
- Berufe
- editor
screenwriter
historian - Beziehungen
- Ward, Diane Raines (wife)
Ward, Frederick Champion (father)
Ward, Duira Rachel (mother nee Baldinger)
Burns, Ken (collaborator) - Organisationen
- Encyclopedia Britannica
American Heritage
Florentine Films
PBS - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- 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) (Zeige alle 7)
Emmy Award (7x) - Agent
- Carl Brandt
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Ganz am Anfang stehen diese drei Aussagen:
Man kann es so sehen: Der Jazz ist ein gutes Barometer für die Freiheit.... In ihren Anfängen brachten die Vereinigten Staaten v0n Amerikan bestimmte Ideale für Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit hervor, aus denen sich schließlich auch der Jazz entwickelte - eine Musik, die so frei ist, das manche Menschen sie für den einzigen ungehinderten, unverfälschten Ausdruck völliger Freiheit halten, den dieses Land je hervorgebracht hat. Duke Ellington
Es ist krasser Individualismus in Reinkultur. Es bedeutet, raus auf die Bühne zu gehen und zu sagen: Völlig egal, wie es irgendjemand vor mir gespielt hat - ich werde es nach meiner Fasson spielen und nicht anders. Garry Giddins
Wer einem Jazzmusiker beim Spielen zusieht, der sieht einen Forscher, einen der experimentiert, einen Wissenschaftler, und dies alles gleichzeitig - denn dieses Spiel ist die Inkarnation des kreativen Prozesses. Albert Murray
Amerika wird in weiter Zukunft in Erinnerung bleiben wegen der Verfassung, Baseball und Jazz, sagte Gerald Early. In diesem Buch mit fast 500 Seiten wird die Geschichte des Jazz in 10 Kapiteln erzählt, visualisiert und weit darüber hinaus jene Seele ausgelotet, die Amerika entstehen ließ, errichtet im Kampf zwischen Haben und Nichthaben, Schwarz und Weiss, Underdogs und Big dogs, die Musik der neuen Welt, nach dem Krieg zu uns herüberfloatend, die Freiheit vom Untertantendasein im Gepäck.… (mehr)