Books written by Geoffrey C. Ward

The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945

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Baseball: An Illustrated History

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Together: How We Belong

Johnson. The inability to form friendships or connect emotionally to others may be the greatest handicap of all . This story explores the collision of such a solitary boy with the other patients he meets in a hospital ward .
The Vietnam War: An Intimate History

Marine Private John Corbett, from Nyack, New York, who had only recently arrived, took cover with two other men in his fighting hole, roofed with sandbags and dirt-filled ammumition boxes. An enemy rocket hit the main Marine ammunition ...
Ken Burns's The Civil War Deluxe eBook (Enhanced Edition): An Illustrated History

Corbett, Boston, 5.1 Corps of Engineers, 4.1 cotton, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 blockade runners 2.1 Cox, General Jacob D., 4.1 Crimean War, 1.1 Crittenden, John, 1.1 Cumberland (ship), 2.1, illus. I.1 currency: Confederate, illus.
The Civil War

The soldiers had orders to take him alive, and the barn was set on fire to force him out, but an overeager sergeant, Boston Corbett, shot him in the back of the head. He was dragged to the porch of a nearby farmhouse.
Mark Twain

Integrating material from his literary works, diaries, and letters, this illustrated portrait of one of America's greatest writers follows Twain from his childhood, through his travels thoughout the world, to his career as a journalist and ...
The West: An Illustrated History

And so, when Lewis and Clark's Utile fleet swung out into the main current of the Missouri on a May afternoon in 1804, its members were traveling not as glorified spies scouting lands claimed by a foreign power but as the Corps of ...
A First-class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, 1905-1928

After the tenth ballot, Murphy threw Tammany's support to Clark and he pulled ahead of all his rivals, but by only a single vote; he needed two thirds to win. On the fourteenth ballot, William Jennings Bryan, who had come to Baltimore ...
Baseball: An Illustrated History

H E R O E S At Cooperstown, New York, in I936, Alexander Cleland, a clerk working for a wealthy local booster named Edward Clark who had inherited some of the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, proposed that the folk-:irt museum Clark ...
Baseball: An Illustrated History

A moving and fascinating history of the game of baseball. Goes beyond the stolen bases and home runs to demonstrate how baseball has been influenced by, and has in turn influenced, American life.
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

above Eleanor Rooseveltislaid to rest next to her husband in the Springwood rose garden, November 19, 1961. A weeklater her friend Adlai Stevenson spokeat a memorial service in Manhattan: “We pray that she has found peace, and a glimpse ...
The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945

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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

"From the Hardcover edition.
A First Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, 1905-1928

In this classic of American biography, based upon thousands of original documents, many never previously published, the prize-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward tells the dramatic story of Franklin Roosevelt’s unlikely rise from ...
Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905

This is a tale that would grip the reader even if its central character had not grown up to be FDR.
Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley

For the first time in paperback, the highly acclaimed, remarkably intimate, and surprisingly revealing secret diary of the woman who spent more private time with FDR than any other person during his years in the White house.
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

In this vivid biography Geoffrey C. Ward brings back to life the most celebrated — and the most reviled — African American of his age.
The Comeback

This is that journey, following the future president from his disastrous attempt to return to his law office to his triumphant march down the aisle at the 1924 Democratic National Convention, where, leaning on his crutches, he delivered the ...