A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt

Geoffrey Champion Ward is an author, historian and writer of American History documentaries for Public Television. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1962. He was the founding editor of Audience magazine and the editor of American Heritage magazine He was the principal writer of the television... mini-series The Civil War and has collaborated with its co-producer Ken Burns on most of the documentaries he has made since, including Jazz, Baseball, The War, and Prohibition. This work won him four Emmy Awards. The most recent Burns/Ward collaboration, Prohibition, premiered on PBS in 2011. He has won two Emmys for his work with the American Experience series. His script for Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, won a Writer's Guild of America Award in 2005. Geoffrey C. Ward is the author or co-author of eighteen books, including five companion books to the documentaries he has written. A First-Class Temperament, his biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians, and was a finalist for he Pulitzer Prize.
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