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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.
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The National Parks
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
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 >
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
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 >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download and an
unabridged audiobook download.
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The National Parks
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $30.00
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 >
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $30.00
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 >
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The Civil War
Format: Trade Paperback, 452 pages
On Sale: September 29, 1992
Price: $29.95
This magnificent pictorial history portrays the Civil War as never before, from the events leading to the firing of the first shot at Fort Sumter, through the battles at Shiloh and Gettysburg, the siege of Vicksburg, Sherman's march to the sea, and Lee's surrender at Appomattox. 500 photos. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 452 pages
On Sale: September 29, 1992
Price: $29.95
This magnificent pictorial history portrays the Civil War as never before, from the events leading to the firing of the first shot at Fort Sumter, through the battles at Shiloh and Gettysburg, the siege of Vicksburg, Sherman's march to the sea, and Lee's surrender at Appomattox. 500 photos. Read more >
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The War
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
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 >
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
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 >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD and an
abridged audiobook download.
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Baseball
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: August 13, 1996
Price: $45.00
With more than 500 photographs
-- Introduction by Roger Angell
-- Essays by Thomas Boswell, Robert W. Creamer, Gerald Early, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Bill James, David Lamb, Daniel Okrent, John Thorn, George E Will
-- And featuring an interview with Buck O'Neil Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: August 13, 1996
Price: $45.00
With more than 500 photographs
-- Introduction by Roger Angell
-- Essays by Thomas Boswell, Robert W. Creamer, Gerald Early, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Bill James, David Lamb, Daniel Okrent, John Thorn, George E Will
-- And featuring an interview with Buck O'Neil Read more >
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The War
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $34.95
The companion volume to the magnificent seven-part PBS series
The individuals featured in this audiobook are not those of historians or scholars. They are 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... Read more >
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $34.95
The companion volume to the magnificent seven-part PBS series
The individuals featured in this audiobook are not those of historians or scholars. They are 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... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
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Mark Twain
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $34.95
Read by
5 CDs/6 hours
A companion audiobook to the 4-hour PBS television series.
From the authors of Jazz, Baseball, and The Civil War: a biography of one of the central figures of our literature—the American titan who gave us Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and Life on the Mississippi.
Using material from Twain's works... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $34.95
Read by
5 CDs/6 hours
A companion audiobook to the 4-hour PBS television series.
From the authors of Jazz, Baseball, and The Civil War: a biography of one of the central figures of our literature—the American titan who gave us Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and Life on the Mississippi.
Using material from Twain's works... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
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The Civil War
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $19.99
The complete text of the bestselling narrative history of the Civil War--based on the celebrated PBS television series. This non-illustrated edition interweaves the author's narrative with the voices of the men and women who lived through that cataclysmic trail of our nationhood, from Abraham Lincoln to ordinary foot soldiers. Includes essays... Read more >
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $19.99
The complete text of the bestselling narrative history of the Civil War--based on the celebrated PBS television series. This non-illustrated edition interweaves the author's narrative with the voices of the men and women who lived through that cataclysmic trail of our nationhood, from Abraham Lincoln to ordinary foot soldiers. Includes essays... Read more >
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Jazz
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $35.00
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 New... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $35.00
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 New... Read more >
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Not For Ourselves Alone
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 26, 2001
Price: $19.95
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were two heroic women who vastly bettered the lives of a majority of American citizens. For more than fifty years they led the public battle to secure for women the most basic civil rights and helped establish a movement that would revolutionize American society... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 26, 2001
Price: $19.95
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were two heroic women who vastly bettered the lives of a majority of American citizens. For more than fifty years they led the public battle to secure for women the most basic civil rights and helped establish a movement that would revolutionize American society... Read more >
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Jazz
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $24.99
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 New... Read more >
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $24.99
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 New... Read more >
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Jazz
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: November 7, 2000
Price: $65.00
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 New... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: November 7, 2000
Price: $65.00
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 New... Read more >
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Baseball: An Illustrated History
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: September 4, 1994
Price: $75.00
530 illustrations in text Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: September 4, 1994
Price: $75.00
530 illustrations in text Read more >
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Mark Twain
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
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 >
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
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 >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD and an
abridged audiobook download.
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Horatio's Drive
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
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 >
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
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 >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD and an
unabridged audiobook download.
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Lewis & Clark
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: September 30, 1997
Price: $45.00
The companion volume to Ken Burns's PBS documentary film, with more than 150 illustrations, most in full color.
In the spring of 1804, at the behest of President oThomas Jefferson, a party of explorers called the Corps of oDiscovery crossed the Mississippi River and started up the Missouri, heading west into the... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: September 30, 1997
Price: $45.00
The companion volume to Ken Burns's PBS documentary film, with more than 150 illustrations, most in full color.
In the spring of 1804, at the behest of President oThomas Jefferson, a party of explorers called the Corps of oDiscovery crossed the Mississippi River and started up the Missouri, heading west into the... Read more >
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Lewis & Clark
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 4, 2004
Price: $25.00
The companion volume to Ken Burns's PBS documentary film, with more than 150 illustrations, most in full color.
In the spring of 1804, at the behest of President Thomas Jefferson, a party of explorers called the Corps of Discovery crossed the Mississippi River and started up the Missouri, heading west into the... Read more >
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 4, 2004
Price: $25.00
The companion volume to Ken Burns's PBS documentary film, with more than 150 illustrations, most in full color.
In the spring of 1804, at the behest of President Thomas Jefferson, a party of explorers called the Corps of Discovery crossed the Mississippi River and started up the Missouri, heading west into the... Read more >
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The Civil War
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: September 5, 1990
Price: $75.00
The complete text of the bestselling narrative history of the Civil War--based on the celebrated PBS television series. This non-illustrated edition interweaves the author's narrative with the voices of the men and women who lived through that cataclysmic trail of our nationhood, from Abraham Lincoln to ordinary foot soldiers. Includes essays... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: September 5, 1990
Price: $75.00
The complete text of the bestselling narrative history of the Civil War--based on the celebrated PBS television series. This non-illustrated edition interweaves the author's narrative with the voices of the men and women who lived through that cataclysmic trail of our nationhood, from Abraham Lincoln to ordinary foot soldiers. Includes essays... Read more >
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Horatio's Drive
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: July 1, 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 >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: July 1, 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 >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
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The Ken Burns Companion Set
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $321.95
The definitive Ken Burns hardcover selection. Six hardcover classics, including: The Civil War: An Illustrated History, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, Jazz: A History of America's Music, Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Baseball: An Illustrated History, and Lewis... Read more >
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $321.95
The definitive Ken Burns hardcover selection. Six hardcover classics, including: The Civil War: An Illustrated History, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, Jazz: A History of America's Music, Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Baseball: An Illustrated History, and Lewis... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Jazz
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 7, 2000
Price: $14.95
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 New... Read more >
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 7, 2000
Price: $14.95
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 New... Read more >
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Mark Twain
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $14.95
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 >
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $14.95
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 >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD and a
hardcover.
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The Ken Burns Companion Set
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: May 22, 2007
Price: $171.85
The best of the Ken Burns trade paperbacks, including The Civil War: An Illustrated History, Baseball: An Illustrated History, Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Jazz: A History of America's Music and Unforgivable... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: May 22, 2007
Price: $171.85
The best of the Ken Burns trade paperbacks, including The Civil War: An Illustrated History, Baseball: An Illustrated History, Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Jazz: A History of America's Music and Unforgivable... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Horatio's Drive
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 1, 2003
Price: $8.95
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 >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 1, 2003
Price: $8.95
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 >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD and a
hardcover.
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The War
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $20.00
The companion volume to the magnificent seven-part PBS series
The individuals featured in this audiobook are not those of historians or scholars. They are 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... Read more >
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $20.00
The companion volume to the magnificent seven-part PBS series
The individuals featured in this audiobook are not those of historians or scholars. They are 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... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD and a
hardcover.
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