The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (Signed)

Ward, Geoffrey C. and Ken Burns (Signed)

ISBN 10: 0307700232 / ISBN 13: 9780307700230

Edité par Alfred A. Knopf, 2014

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Oversized hardcover with DJ. Bound in gray cloth with gold lettering along spine. Tan DJ with silver text, black and white photos across covers and along spine. Corners are gently bumped. DJ is otherwise clean and neat. Title page dated 2014. Copyright page dated only 2014, stated first edition. 503 pages. All clean, crisp, and bright. Still glossy. B&W photos featured throughout. Binding is tight and secure. Title page inscribed: For M---, Geoffrey C. Ward, and signed by Ken Burns without inscription. This is an oversized book, so extra postage will be necessary for priority or international shipping. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it?s a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (Signed)
• Éditeur: Alfred A. Knopf
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0307700232
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780307700230
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: Assez bon
• État de la jaquette: Assez bon
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur

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Synopsis

New York Times Bestseller 

A vivid and personal portrait of America’s greatest political family and its enormous impact on our nation, which expands on the hugely acclaimed seven-part PBS documentary series, bringing readers even deeper into these extraordinary leaders’ lives
 
With 796 photographs, some never before seen
 
The authors of the acclaimed and best-selling The Civil War, Jazz, The War, and Baseball present an intimate history of three extraordinary individuals from the same extraordinary family—Theodore, Eleanor, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
 
Geoffrey C. Ward, distilling more than thirty years of thinking and writing about the Roosevelts, and the acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns help us understand for the first time that, 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 frailty, outpace depression, survive terrible grief—and transform the office of the presidency.

Eleanor Roosevelt, orphaned and alone as a child, would endure her husband’s betrayal, battle her own self-doubts, and remake herself into the most consequential first lady in American history—and the most admired woman on earth.

And Franklin Roosevelt, born to privilege and so pampered that most of his youthful contemporaries dismissed him as a charming lightweight, would summon the strength to lead the nation through the two greatest crises since the Civil War, though he could not take a single step unaided.

The three were towering personalities, but The Roosevelts shows that they were also flawed human beings who confronted in their personal lives issues familiar to all of us: anger and the need for forgiveness, courage and cowardice, confidence and self-doubt, loyalty to family and the need to be true to oneself. This is the story of the Roosevelts—no other American family ever touched so many lives.

À propos de l'auteur

Geoffrey C. Ward is the author of seventeen books, including three focused on FDR: Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882–1905; A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt (which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize); and Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley. A longtime collaborator with Ken Burns, he has also won seven Emmys and written twenty-seven historical documentaries for PBS, either on his own or in collaboration with others, including The Roosevelts: An Intimate History.
 
Ken Burns, director and producer of The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, has been making documentary films for more than thirty-five years.  Since the Academy Award–nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, Burns has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made, including The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, The War, and The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. Burns’s films have been honored with dozens of major awards, including thirteen Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and two Oscar nominations; and in September 2008, at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, Burns was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a Lifetime Achievement Award.