Most Popular Books by Ken Burns

Celebrates the achievements of jazz from it''s origins in blues and ragtime through swing, bebop and fusion. The 10 part series includes 75 interviews, 500 pieces of music, 2400 still photographs and 2000 film clips.

Drafts and research materials from Holliday''s books "The World Rushed In," and "Rush for Riches," along with journal articles, and papers relating to Holliday''s employment at the Oakland Museum, the Bancroft Library, and the California Historical Society.

Celebrates the achievements of jazz from it''s origins in blues and ragtime through swing, bebop and fusion. The 10 part series includes 75 interviews, 500 pieces of music, 2400 still photographs and 2000 film clips.

In depression-era California, two migrant workers dream of better days on a spread of their own until an act of unintentional violence leads to tragic consequences.

Text of speech by Burns as a visiting scholar with the Park School of Communications at Ithaca College, describing his documentary work to that time as a means of teaching and preserving the history of the United States, particularly of his films on the Civil War, baseball, and jazz as documenting the progress of race relations in the United States.

Celebrates the achievements of jazz from it''s origins in blues and ragtime through swing, bebop and fusion. The 10 part series includes 75 interviews, 500 pieces of music, 2400 still photographs and 2000 film clips.

Celebrates the achievements of jazz from it''s origins in blues and ragtime through swing, bebop and fusion. The 10 part series includes 75 interviews, 500 pieces of music, 2400 still photographs and 2000 film clips.

Celebrates the achievements of jazz from it''s origins in blues and ragtime through swing, bebop and fusion. The 10 part series includes 75 interviews, 500 pieces of music, 2400 still photographs and 2000 film clips.

A long overdue complete and biography of A.A.''s Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith, affectionately called "Dr. Bob," Co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, and given the title (by his co-founder Bill Wilson) "the Prince of All Twelfth Steppers." This title highlights some vital recovery factors in Dr. Bob''s life: (1) His excellent training in the Bible as a youngster. (2) The enormous influence on his later recovery ideas of St. Johnsbury, Vermont institutions--the North Congregational Church of St. Johnsbury, its Sunday School, and Christian Endeavor Society, Vermont Congregationalism and its Great Awakening, the prominent Fairbanks Family of St. Johnsbury, the YMCA, St. Johnsbury Academy, daily chapel, required church attendance, Bible study and prayer meetings, revivals, and Gospel meetings. (3) Dr. Bob''s translation of all these factors into the simple early A.A. program in Akron which attained a documented 75 to 93% success rate among seemingly hopeless, medically incurable, real alcoholics who thoroughly followed the Akron path to a relationship with God. (4) The great significance of the efforts of Dr. Bob and his wife Anne Ripley Smith as they hospitalized newcomers, took them into their home on discharge, taught them Bible study, organized a Christian Fellowship, held old fashioned revival meetings, led newcomers to Christ as their Saviour, and emphasized love and service to others--a phrase from Dr. Bob''s Christian Endeavor Society youth.