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Geoffrey C. Ward, author portrait
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Geoffrey C. Ward

GEOFFREY C. WARD, historian and screenwriter, is the author of nineteen 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 American Revolution
The Vietnam War
Before the Trumpet
A First-Class Temperament
A Disposition to Be Rich
The War
Baseball
Unforgivable Blackness
Jazz
The Civil War

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The American Revolution
The Vietnam War
Before the Trumpet
A First-Class Temperament
A Disposition to Be Rich
The War
Baseball
Unforgivable Blackness
Jazz
The Civil War

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