Top 10 Best "Ken Burns" Books

The National Parks

America's Best Idea

Dayton…

Ken Burns's The Civil War

Robert Brent Toplin

Ken Burns

Ken Burns's The Civil War

Ken Burns's documentary The Civil War made television history, breaking all viewing records for a PBS series. Indeed, forty million people saw it, more than the populations of the Union and the Confederacy combined. For a generation of Americans, this documentary is the Civil War. Yet many professional historians criticized it sharply.

Ken Burns's The Civil War brings together detractors, supporters, and Ken Burns himself in a volume that will inspire readers to look again at this stunning documentary, at the way television shows history, and at the Civil War itself. For example, Catherine Clinton chides the filmmakers for the film's heavy military emphasis and the short shrift given to women. Eric Foner and Leon Litwack are even more scathing, saying that the series distorts the legacy of the war by focusing on the preservation of the union, ignoring the importance of the institution of slavery to those who fought the war, and neglecting the experiences of blacks both during and after the war.

In response, C. Vann Woodward, who served as an advisor to the ser...

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Horatio's Drive

Dayton Duncan
Ken Burns

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The Civil War

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Jazz

Geoffrey C. Ward
Ken Burns

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The West

Geoffrey C. Ward
Stephen Ives
Ken Burns

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The War

An Intimate History
1941-1945

Geoffrey C.…

Mel Bay's Complete Jethro Burns Mandolin Book

Jethro Burns; Ken Eidson

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Ken Burns's America

Gary R. Edgerton

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Baseball

Geoffrey C. Ward
Ken Burns

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Finding a Fallen Hero

Finding a Fallen Hero is a compelling story that blends a wartime drama with a primer on specialized research. Author Bob Korkuc initially set out to learn how his Uncle Tony came to rest at Arlington. In the process, he also unraveled the mystery of what occurred over the skies of Germany half a century ago.

Korkuc dug up military documents and private letters and interviewed people in both the United States and Germany. He tracked down surviving crewmembers and even found the brother of the Luftwaffe pilot who downed the B-17. Dozens of photographs help readers envision both Tony Korkuc's fateful flight and his nephew's dogged search for the truth.

A gripping chronicle of exhaustive research, Finding a Fallen Hero will strike a chord with any reader who has lost a family member to war. And it will inspire others to satisfy their own unanswered questions.

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Finding a Fallen Hero

Ken Burns

I Was Right On Time

Buck O'neil
David Conrads
Ken Burns
Steve Wulf

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