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(0)Geoffrey C Ward
Author
Language
English
Description
Ferdinand Ward was the Bernie Madoff of his generation-a supposed genius at making big money fast on Wall Street, who turned out to have been running a giant pyramid scheme that ultimately collapsed in one of the greatest financial scandals in American history. The son of a Protestant missionary and small-town pastor with secrets of his own to keep, Ward came to New York at twenty-one and in less than a decade, armed only with charm, energy, and a...
Author
Pub. Date
1990
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xix, 425 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
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 by distinguished historians of the era.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
As companion to his PBS series airing in September 2007, "The War" focuses on the citizens of four towns--Luverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama, following more than forty people from 1941 to 1945. Maps and hundreds of photographs enrich this compelling, unflinching narrative.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
More than forty years after it ended, the Vietnam War continues to haunt our country. We still argue over why we were there, whether we could have won, and who was right and wrong in their response to the conflict. This volume draws on hundreds of interviews in America and Vietnam to give us the perspectives of people involved at all levels of the war: U.S. and Vietnamese soldiers and their families, high-level officials in America and Vietnam, antiwar...
8) Mark Twain
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 269 pages : illustrations, map, photographs ; 27 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 503 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
This companion volume to the PBS documentary distills more than thirty years of thinking and writing about the Roosevelts. Despite the fierce partisanship of their eras, the Roosevelts were far more united than divided. All the history the Roosevelts made is here, but this is primarily an intimate account, the story of three people who overcame obstacles that would have undone less forceful personalities. Theodore Roosevelt would push past childhood...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
418 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of Gilded Age con artist Ferdinand Ward, recounting how his large-scale pyramid operation and other sensational schemes triggered one of the greatest financial scandals in American history.
16) The Civil War
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (700 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An epic documentary bringing life to America's most destructive - and defining - conflict. Here is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers. A heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one again.
18) The war
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (840 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - and examines the ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 8.5 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In an immersive narrative, Burns and Novick tell the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Features testimony from nearly 100 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.