Geoffrey C. Ward, author portrait
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Geoffrey C. Ward

Geoffrey C. Ward, historian and screenwriter, is the author of sixteen books, including A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Francis Parkman Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He has written or cowritten many documentary films, including The War, The Civil War, Baseball, The West, Mark Twain, Not for Ourselves Alone, and Jazz.  
The Vietnam War
The Roosevelts
Before the Trumpet
A First-Class Temperament
The Comeback
A Disposition to Be Rich
The War
Baseball
Unforgivable Blackness
Jazz
Mark Twain
The Civil War

Books

The Vietnam War
The Roosevelts
Before the Trumpet
A First-Class Temperament
The Comeback
A Disposition to Be Rich
The War
Baseball
Unforgivable Blackness
Jazz
Mark Twain
The Civil War

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