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Ken Burns, director and producer of The National Parks, founded his own documentary company, Florentine Films, in 1976. His films include The War, Jazz, Baseball, and The Civil War, which was the highest-rated series in the history of American public television. His work has won numerous prizes, including the Emmy and Peabody Awards, and two Academy Award nominations. He received a Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award in 2008. He lives in Walpole, New Hampshire.
Ken Burns is represented by Random House Speakers Bureau (http://www.rhspeakers.com).
author bookshelf
Horatio's Drive
America's First Road Trip
Written by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: July 8, 2003
Price: $24.95
The companion volume to the PBS documentary film about the first—and perhaps most astonishing—automobile trip across the United States.
In 1903 there were only 150 miles of paved roads in the entire nation and most people had never seen a “horseless buggy”—but that did not stop Horatio Nelson Jackson, a thirty-one-year-old Vermont... Read more >
America's First Road Trip
Written by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: July 8, 2003
Price: $24.95
The companion volume to the PBS documentary film about the first—and perhaps most astonishing—automobile trip across the United States.
In 1903 there were only 150 miles of paved roads in the entire nation and most people had never seen a “horseless buggy”—but that did not stop Horatio Nelson Jackson, a thirty-one-year-old Vermont... Read more >
Lewis & Clark
The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Written by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 30, 1997
Price: $45.00
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The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Written by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 30, 1997
Price: $45.00
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The National Parks
America's Best Idea
Written by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $32.50
The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War
America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but... Read more >
America's Best Idea
Written by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $32.50
The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War
America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but... Read more >
The National Parks
America's Best Idea
Written by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $50.00
The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War
America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but... Read more >
America's Best Idea
Written by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $50.00
The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War
America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but... Read more >
Baseball
An Illustrated History, including The Tenth Inning
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns and Kevin Baker
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $39.95
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An Illustrated History, including The Tenth Inning
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns and Kevin Baker
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $39.95
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The Civil War
An Illustrated History
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ric Burns and Ken Burns
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 29, 1992
Price: $29.95
This edition is fully illustrated with maps, photos, and hundreds of other images which enhance the overall reading and learning experience. Ward's acclaimed narrative history (based on the PBS television series) interweaves the authors' narrative with the voices of the participants, from politicians and officers to soldiers and civilians on both... Read more >
An Illustrated History
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ric Burns and Ken Burns
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 29, 1992
Price: $29.95
This edition is fully illustrated with maps, photos, and hundreds of other images which enhance the overall reading and learning experience. Ward's acclaimed narrative history (based on the PBS television series) interweaves the authors' narrative with the voices of the participants, from politicians and officers to soldiers and civilians on both... Read more >
The Civil War
An Illustrated History
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ric Burns and Ken Burns
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 5, 1990
Price: $75.00
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An Illustrated History
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ric Burns and Ken Burns
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 5, 1990
Price: $75.00
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Jazz
A History of America's Music
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $45.00
The companion volume to the ten-part PBS TV series by the team responsible for The Civil War and Baseball.
Continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed works, Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns vividly bring to life the story of the quintessential American music—jazz. Born in the black community of turn-of-the-century... Read more >
A History of America's Music
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $45.00
The companion volume to the ten-part PBS TV series by the team responsible for The Civil War and Baseball.
Continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed works, Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns vividly bring to life the story of the quintessential American music—jazz. Born in the black community of turn-of-the-century... Read more >
Jazz
A History of America's Music
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 7, 2000
Price: $80.00
Born in the black community of turn-of-the-century New Orleans but played from the beginning by musicians of every color, jazz celebrates all Americans at their best. Here are the stories of the extraordinary men and women who made the music.
Louis Armstrong, the fatherless waif whose unrivaled genius helped turn jazz into... Read more >
A History of America's Music
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 7, 2000
Price: $80.00
Born in the black community of turn-of-the-century New Orleans but played from the beginning by musicians of every color, jazz celebrates all Americans at their best. Here are the stories of the extraordinary men and women who made the music.
Louis Armstrong, the fatherless waif whose unrivaled genius helped turn jazz into... Read more >
Mark Twain
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $40.00
Ernest Hemingway called Huckleberry Finn “the best book we’ve ever had. There was nothing before. There’s been nothing as good since.” Critical opinion of this book hasn’t dimmed since Hemingway uttered these words; as author Russell Banks says in these pages, Twain “makes possible an American literature which would otherwise not... Read more >
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $40.00
Ernest Hemingway called Huckleberry Finn “the best book we’ve ever had. There was nothing before. There’s been nothing as good since.” Critical opinion of this book hasn’t dimmed since Hemingway uttered these words; as author Russell Banks says in these pages, Twain “makes possible an American literature which would otherwise not... Read more >
The War
An Intimate History, 1941-1945
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $30.00
The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced—and helped to win—the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost.
Focusing on the citizens of four towns—Luverne... Read more >
An Intimate History, 1941-1945
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $30.00
The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced—and helped to win—the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost.
Focusing on the citizens of four towns—Luverne... Read more >
The War
An Intimate History, 1941-1945
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $50.00
The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced—and helped to win—the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost.
Focusing on the citizens of four towns— Luverne... Read more >
An Intimate History, 1941-1945
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $50.00
The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced—and helped to win—the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost.
Focusing on the citizens of four towns— Luverne... Read more >
