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Geoffrey Champion Ward (born 1940) is an American editor, author, historian and writer of scripts for American history documentaries for public television. He is the author or co-author of 19 books, including 10 companion books to the documentaries he has written. He is the winner of seven Emmy Awards. Biography Youth Ward was born in Newark, Ohio, and is a graduate of Oberlin College (1962), where he majored in art. He had initially planned to be a painter. His father was F. Champion Ward, educator and a vice-president of the Ford Foundation. Ward spent some of his boyhood years in India. Ward's great-grandfather was Ferdinand Ward, a 19th-century swindler whose ponzi scheme lead to a financial crash which bankrupted many investors, including Ulysses S. Grant and Thomas Nast. Ward wrote a book about the story of his great-grandfather, A Disposition to be Rich, in 2012. Career Early career Ward was the founding editor of Audience Magazine (1970–1973) and the editor of American Heritage Magazine (1977–1982). His 1989 biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt, A First-class Temperament: the Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, won 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. Later career Ward has been a long-time collaborator of American documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Ward describes being asked to write the script for Huey Long after meeting Burns at his house in Walpole, New Hampshire. The principal writer of the television mini-series The Civil War (1990), Ward has collaborated with its co-producer Ken Burns on most of the documentaries he has made since, including Jazz, Baseball, The War, and The Vietnam War. The films with Burns have garnered him five Emmy Awards. He has won an additional two Emmys for The Kennedys (1992), and TR, The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (1996). His script for the documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, won the Writers Guild of America Award in 2005, and the accompanying book won the 2006 William Hill Sports Book of the Year and the Anisfield-Wolf Award for best biography. In 2006, the Organization of American Historians gave Ward their Friend of History Award for his outstanding contributions to American history: Over the last twenty years Geoffrey Ward's writings on American History have had a greater influence and reached a wider audience than those of any other American writer and historian. [His] work is always his own, but he has also helped free ideas that otherwise might have been imprisoned in the academy and helped them find a wider world. He has helped academic historians understand the possibilities, limits, and demands of what has become the medium through which most Americans now get their history." The 2011 Burns/Ward collaboration, Prohibition, brought Ward his seventh Emmy for Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming. Since that project, he worked with Ken Burns on The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, a seven-part documentary miniseries depicting the lives of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Eleanor Roosevelt, (broadcast on PBS in September 2014), and a multi-part TV series "The Vietnam War", with Lynn Novick and Ken Burns (broadcast on PBS in September 2017). In 2012, Ward published a biography of his great-grandfather Ferdinand Ward (1851–1925), known as the greatest swindler of the Gilded Age. A Disposition to be Rich was written with the assistance of private family materials. India Ward spent some of his boyhood years in India and has remained involved with India and in Indian issues. Working and writing about the ongoing struggle to save the Bengal tiger in the wild has meant friendships with great tiger men like Fateh Singh Rathore and Billy Arjan Singh. His essays and pieces on India have appeared in a wide array of publications, including Geo, Audubon, National Geographic, Smithsonian, Aperture and others. In 2011, he wrote an introduction for the book Varanasi: Portrait of a Civilization, (Collins, India,) by the photographer Raghu Rai, with whom he has collaborated on magazine pieces. He is currently at work on a book about the partition of the Indian subcontinent. Jazz Ward is involved in the world of jazz and has collaborated with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. After the documentary Jazz was aired on public television, in an interview in the New York Times, Ward spoke of playing West End Blues by Louis Armstrong, as a 15-year-old student, so often that the bartender in the Paris cafe across the street from his student housing called him 'Satchmo': "I must have played it a thousand times," he remembered. "I think jazz music is so important to this country.... I find these characters, Armstrong, Ellington, working in a Jim Crow world, genuinely heroic."" Personal life Ward is married to the writer and social/environmental activist Diane Raines Ward. He has three children. When he was nine years old, Ward contracted poliomyelitis, and wears leg braces. He describes hearing Louis Armstrong's recording of "West End Blues" on the radio while in the hospital and noted its profound impact on his life. He later cited Franklin Roosevelt as a source of inspiration on how to overcome his handicap. When interviewed for The Roosevelts, Ward "was determined not to get emotional", as Ken Burns said later, when discussing the "terror" felt by FDR during his ordeal in 1921; Burns did not mention Ward's disability on camera, but he had waited until the end of their interview before getting to questions on FDR's polio, at which point Ward "was taken aback and the emotions caught him".Ward considers British broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough to be "the best television writer in the history of the medium."Ward describes himself as a "lifelong liberal Democrat." Works Books Lincoln's Thought and the Present (1976), Sangamon State University Treasures of the World: The Maharajas (1983), Time Life, New York Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905 (1985), Harper & Row; New York A First Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt (1989), Harper & Row. The Civil War: An Illustrated History, (1990), with Ric and Ken Burns; based upon PBS television series, Alfred A. Knopf American Originals: The Private Worlds of Some Singular Men and Women (1991), HarperCollins Tiger-Wallahs: Encounters with the Men Who Tried to Save the Greatest of the Cats (1993), with Diane Raines Ward; HarperCollins Baseball: An Illustrated History (1994), with Ken Burns; Alfred A. Knopf Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley (1995), Houghton Mifflin The West: An Illustrated History (1997), Little, Brown & Co The Year of the Tiger (1998), with Michael Nichols; National Geographic Books Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anth.... Discover the A C Ward popular books. Find the top 100 most popular A C Ward books.
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Cockerham v. Ward
Court of Appeals of New YorkN.C. Gen. Stat. ? 1A1, Rule 56 requires that the party moving for summary judgment "clearly [establish] the lack of any triable issue of fact by the record properly before the cour...
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The Toll House
Carly ReagonDiscover the spinetingling ghost story everyone is raving about:'If you like a good ghost story put this chilling thriller to the very top of your reading list' Sarah Pearse autho...
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State v. Ward
North Carolina Court of AppealsAn unpublished opinion of the North Carolina Court of Appeals does not constitute controlling legal authority. Citation is disfavored, but may be permitted in accordance with the p...
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Jacob Chomont v. A. C. Ward
Supreme Court of FloridaTHORNAL, Justice. Appellant Chomont, who was plaintiff below, seeks reversal of a judgment entered pursuant to a jury verdict in favor of appellee Ward, who was defendan...
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Ward v. Cruse
Supreme Court of North CarolinaThe trial judge set aside the verdict in the exercise of her sound discretion. Her action in so doing is not reviewable. Riley v. Stone, 169 N.C. 421, 86 S.E. 348; Jones v. Insuran...
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Fifth Ward to Fourth Quarter
Delvin WilliamsAfter his release from the Green Bay Packers, realizing that his football career was abruptly over, Delvin Williams asked himself some hard questions: What happened to the game he ...
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Rulane Gas Co. v. Ward
Court of Appeals of New YorkThe original plaintiff recovered in her action against Rulane Gas Company for the injury and wrongful death of her intestate, and the Gas Company has paid the plaintiff the amount ...
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Spear of Courage
A.C. WardShe needs help, but at what cost?Finally surrounded by people she cares about, Shou begins to embrace her new life. Her friendship with Masaru, the heir to the Date clan...
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Pictures from English Literature ... With twenty illustrations, by J. C. Horsley, E. M. Ward, W. F. Yeames, etc.
John Francis Waller, John Callcott Horsley & William Frederick YeamesThe FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from s...
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Ward v. Smith
Supreme Court of North CarolinaThe plaintiff claims title to the locus in quo by adverse possession for twenty years. It is in evidence that he first entered upon the land in August, 1920; that he occupied it th...
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Montgomery Ward v. Charles C. Thomas and
Supreme Court of AlaskaNESBETT, Chief Justice. The sole question presented by this appeal is whether the denial of appellant's motion for a new trial was an abuse of discretion. At the outset it should b...
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The Night Before Christmas
Clement C. MooreEnjoy the classic Christmas tale as never before with stunning illustrations by Antonio Caparo, who brought another holiday legend to life in Rudolph the RedNosed Reindeer and Rudo...
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Wycliffe and the Guilt-Edged Alibi
W.J. BurleyA family feud leads to murder and Superintendent Wycliffe is on the case...Caroline Bryce came from the top of the social register in the tranquil town of Treen. So it was quite a...
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Goff v. Frank a Ward Realty and Insurance Co.
Court of Appeals of North CarolinaThe first issue is whether North Carolinas Workers Compensation Act is the exclusive remedy for an employee intentionally injured by a fellow employee. We hold that it is not.
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Ward C. Holbrook and Mabel F. Holbrook V.
Supreme Court Of UtahOn September 7, 1956, the plaintiffs filed an action against Websters Inc., and others to foreclose a mortgage on certain real property in Davis County, State of Utah. The complain...
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Ward v. Mcdonald
Supreme Court of North Carolina No. 302P91Order Upon consideration of the petition filed by Plaintiff in this matter for a writ of certiorari to review the decision of the North Carolina Court of Appeals, the following ord...
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State v. Ward
North Carolina Court of AppealsAn unpublished opinion of the North Carolina Court of Appeals does not constitute controlling legal authority. Citation is disfavored, but may be permitted in accordance with the p...
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Ward v. Daily Reflector Inc.
Supreme Court of North Carolina No. 168P90Order Upon consideration of the notice of appeal from the North Carolina Court of Appeals, filed by the Plaintiff in this matter pursuant to G.S. 7A30, and the motion to dismiss th...
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Wycliffe and Death in a Salubrious Place
W.J. BurleyOn the beautiful, tranquil Scilly Isles, a brutal murder is uncovered...There was no doubt at all that the girl was dead. The front of her skull and her facial bones had been splin...
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Minnie C. Hubbard v. Montgomery Ward
Supreme Court of MinnesotaAction in the district court for Blue Earth county to recover for injuries sustained by plaintiff in a fall on defendants store premises. The case was tried before Harry A. Johnson...
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The Gulf of Aden Pilot ... Compiled from memoires of Officers of the Indian Navy, by ... C. Y. Ward. SECOND EDITION
AnonymousThe GEOLOGY collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The works in this collection contain a number of maps, charts, and tables from the 16th to th...
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Katana of Trust
A.C. WardEscaping death by her father's hand was only the beginning....Determined to prove herself to the gods, Shou will do anything to forget the journey that brought her to the island of...
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State v. Ward C. Klingensmith
Supreme Court of FloridaThis is an original information in quo warrantor brought by Clark to test the right of Klingensmith to hold the office of County Commissioner of Brevard County pursuant...
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Ward v. Hillhaven Inc.
Supreme Court of North Carolina No. 64P90Order Webb, J., for the Court Upon consideration of the notice of appeal from the North Carolina Court of Appeals, filed by the Plaintiff in this matter pursuant to G.S. 7A30, and ...
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Shaw v. J. F. Ward Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina No. 382The plaintiff, an invitee, was injured in a fall as she descended the wooden steps between the first and the second floors of defendant's department store. She alleged: ""That said...
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Wycliffe and the Dunes Mystery
W.J. BurleyA highprofile murder investigation for Wycliffe, in Cornwall's heartland.Cochran Wilder disappeared fifteen years ago while on a walking holiday in Cornwall. Recently released from...
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The Odyssey of Echo Company
Doug StantonSELECTED BY MILITARY TIMES AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SELECTED BY THE SOCIETY OF MIDLAND AUTHORS’ AS THE BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR The New York Times bestselling author of ...
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Pictures from English Literature ... With twenty illustrations, by J. C. Horsley, E. M. Ward, W. F. Yeames, etc.
John Francis WallerThe FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from s...
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Sword of Compassion
A.C. WardHe protects her.His mother wants her dead....Living in the human world is difficult for Shou. She wants nothing more than to remain in the life she is building with Marasu, heir to...
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The Gulf of Aden Pilot ... Compiled from memoires of Officers of the Indian Navy, by ... C. Y. Ward. THIRD EDITION
AnonymousThe HISTORY OF ASIA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This series includes ethnographic and general histories of distinct peripheral coast...
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D.W. Ward Construction Co. v. Adams
Supreme Court of North Carolina No. 277PA88Order Webb, J. Upon consideration of the petition filed by Defendants in this matter for discretionary review of the decision of the North Carolina Court of Appeals pursuant to G.S...
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The Silver Wind
Nina AllanNamed as one of '50 Writers You Should Read Now' by The Guardian. From the awardwinning author of The Rift, Nina Allan, The Silver Wind is a remarkable narrative exploring the natu...
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The Night Before Christmas
Clement C. MooreEnjoy the classic Christmas tale as never before with stunning illustrations by Antonio Caparo, who brought another holiday legend to life in Rudolph the RedNosed Reindeer and Rudo...
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Straight Edge Construction, Inc. v. D.W. Ward Construction Co., Inc.
North Carolina Court of AppealsAn unpublished opinion of the North Carolina Court of Appeals does not constitute controlling legal authority. Citation is disfavored, but may be permitted in accordance with the p...
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The Complete Guide to Breast Cancer
Professor Trisha Greenhalgh & Dr Liz O’RiordanThe book you can trust to support you at every stage of your treatment and beyondWinner of best 'Popular Medicine' book, BMA Medical Book Awards 2019 Professor Trisha Greenhalgh, ...
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The Gulf of Aden Pilot ... Compiled from memoires of Officers of the Indian Navy, by ... C. Y. Ward.
AnonymousThe HISTORY OF ASIA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This series includes ethnographic and general histories of distinct peripheral coast...
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The Rent Rolls of Lord Dudley and Ward, in 1701, with two papers relating to the Dudley and Ward Family, dated in 1723 and 1725. Edited by C. H. Bayley.
Edward Baron Dudley, Charles H. Bayley & WardThe HISTORY OF BRITAIN & IRELAND collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. As well as historical works, this collection includes geographies, ...
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Ward v. Jett Properties
North Carolina Court of AppealsAn unpublished opinion of the North Carolina Court of Appeals does not constitute controlling legal authority. Citation is disfavored, but may be permitted in accordance with the p...
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Ward v. J. C. Penney Co.
Department One Supreme Court of WashingtonThis action was instituted by the guardian of a 5yearold boy, Tommy Ward, to recover for injuries sustained by said minor while riding on defendants escalator.
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Ward v. Cruse
Supreme Court of North Carolina No. 378[234 NC Page 389] The trial judge set aside the verdict in the exercise of her sound discretion. Her action in so doing is not reviewable. Riley v. Stone, 169 N.C. 421, 86 S.E. 348...
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Ardis v. Ward
the State of South Carolina In the Supreme CourtOpinion No. 24373, Ardis v. Ward, etc., et al. Appeal From Greenwood County James W. Johnson, Jr., Judge Heard November 15, 1995 REVERSED AND REMANDED Bill Ardis appeals the circui...
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T. Arnold Ward Et Al. v. Ray C. Lyman
Supreme Court of Vermont[1] The jurisdiction of a court of equity to reform a written instrument upon the ground of mistake will be exercised only when the mistake is established by evidence so strong and...
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Ward v. Bowles
Supreme Court of North CarolinaOn this record plaintiff was lawfully in the intersection, standing in a position where he was clearly visible to the driver of the defendants taxicab as the latter approached the ...
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Ward v. Bowles
Supreme Court of North Carolina No. 676[228 NC Page 274] On this record plaintiff was lawfully in the intersection, standing in a position where he was clearly visible to the driver of the defendant's taxicab as the lat...