2016 Postmortem

appalachiablue

(41,127 posts) Tue May 19, 2015, 05:50 PM May 2015

8-10 PM ET Tonight: PBS, THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY, Part 3. The Fire of Life (1910-1919)

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History by Ken Burns.

Part 3. of 7, 'The Fire of Light (1910-1919)'

PBS *WETA, Wash DC, 8-10 PM ET; 1 hour Program repeats

TRAILER, THE ROOSEVELTS Part 3. 'THE FIRE OF LIFE (1910-1919)'

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8-10 PM ET Tonight: PBS, THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY, Part 3. The Fire of Life (1910-1919) (Original Post) appalachiablue May 2015 OP

Highly recommended! Cooley Hurd May 2015 #1

A Terrific Production! If you like Burns' longtime colleague, historian GEOFFREY WARD see appalachiablue May 2015 #4

I've been wanting to watch this! Lisa D May 2015 #2

For sure, enjoy! If you like Burns' longtime colleague GEOFFREY WARD see #3. Post on him. appalachiablue May 2015 #5

Ken Burns' colleague GEOFFREY C. WARD is the well known commenter, historian-author appalachiablue May 2015 #3

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)

1. Highly recommended!

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2015, 06:03 PM

May 2015

The Best of all the Roosevelt docs, hands down. Ken Burns' BEST work!!!

appalachiablue

(41,127 posts)

4. A Terrific Production! If you like Burns' longtime colleague, historian GEOFFREY WARD see

Reply to Cooley Hurd (Reply #1)

Tue May 19, 2015, 08:20 PM

May 2015

#3. Post I did on him, very interesting professional.

Lisa D

(1,532 posts)

2. I've been wanting to watch this!

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2015, 06:14 PM

May 2015

Thank you for posting it

appalachiablue

(41,127 posts)

5. For sure, enjoy! If you like Burns' longtime colleague GEOFFREY WARD see #3. Post on him.

Reply to Lisa D (Reply #2)

Tue May 19, 2015, 08:21 PM

May 2015

appalachiablue

(41,127 posts)

3. Ken Burns' colleague GEOFFREY C. WARD is the well known commenter, historian-author

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2015, 08:06 PM

May 2015

who appears in "The Roosevelts: An Intimate History" (2014) by Ken Burns. A familiar face and American history expert, Ward is an Emmy Award winning, prolific writer, author, historian and scriptwriter for public television. He has worked for 20 years with awarded documentary filmmaker Ken Burns on films such as, 'The Civil War' (1991); 'Baseball' (1995); 'The West' (1996); 'Jazz (2001); and 'Prohibition' (2011).

Geoffrey C. Ward Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Ward
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~ Geoffrey Ward also shares something very interesting in common with one of the Roosevelts, FDR that is sensitively brought up in this PBS blog about the new Roosevelt family documentary in 2014.

MORE: "Ken Burn's The Roosevelts: The Truth Outside the Frame", PBS, POV Blog, Sept. 15, 2014, Tom Roston
http://www.pbs.org/pov/blog/docsoup/2014/09/ken-burnss-the-roosevelts-the-truth-outside-the-frame/#.VVykpsLD9jp
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~ Along with his work as a public television scriptwriter, Geoffrey Ward is also the author of 15 books including, "A DISPOSITION TO BE RICH" (2012) written about his notorious 19th century great grandfather FERDINAND WARD. I saw the author comment about the life and reputation of his ancestor and was impressed by his candor and distain for the man. (Every family has their 'colorful' members and 'characters' for a fact!)

MORE: LA Times, Review: "A Disposition to be Rich", May 20, 2012 By Scott Martelle.
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/20/entertainment/la-ca-geoffrey-ward-20120520

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