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.

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.

The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War. America''s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation''s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone.

From the authors of "Jazz, Baseball, " and "The Civil War": the first fully illustrated biography of one of the central figures of literature--the American titan who gave readers Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and "Life on the Mississippi." A companion volume to the four-hour PBS television series. 150 illustrations, 40 in color.

With live cinematography, interviews and rare archival footage this film brings Frank Lloyd Wright''s story, as one of the greatest American architects, to life.

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.

Notes from an interview of Robert Cooley by PBS Producer Ken Burns for his research on Thomas Jefferson. Cooley believes he is a great-great-great-great-great grandson of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings through her son Thomas Woodson. Cooley gives details of his family''s oral history traditions.