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Harvard Book Store Presents...
Knopf
Price: $50.00
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KEN BURNS discusses The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945 with CHRISTOPHER LYDON
Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome KEN BURNS to discuss The War: An Intimate History, the documentary currently being shown on PBS and its companion volume, which give an account of World War II from the soldiers and families affected directly by the war. Mr. Burns will appear in conversation wtih Christopher Lydon. The voices that speak in The War are those of ordinary men and women who experienced—and helped to win—the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost. Focusing on the citizens of four towns— Luverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama;—The War follows more than forty people from 1941 to 1945. Woven largely from their memories, the compelling narrative unfolds month by month, with the outcome always in doubt. All the iconic events are here, from Pearl Harbor to the liberation of the concentration camps—but we also move among prisoners of war and Japanese American internees, defense workers and schoolchildren, and families who struggled simply to stay together while their men were shipped off to Europe, the Pacific, and North Africa.
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617.661.1515
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617.661.1424 ex.1
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| DATE: |
Tuesday, October 23rd |
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7:00 PM |
| LOCATION: |
First Parish Church Meetinghouse
On the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St.
Cambridge |
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Tickets for this event are $5 and may be purchased at Harvard Book Store or over the phone with a credit card at 617-661-1515. Please note that your $5 ticket may be redeemed for $5 off a single item at the event or at Harvard Book Store for one month following the event. |
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Ken Burns, producer and director of the film series The War, founded his own documentary company, Florentine Films, in 1976. His films include Jazz, Baseball, and The Civil War, which
was the highest-rated series in the history of American public
television. His work has won numerous prizes, including the Emmy and
Peabody Awards, and two Academy Award nominations. He lives in Walpole,
New Hampshire.
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Christopher Lydon stumbled out of the media storm into the pleasures of smart talk radio about a decade ago, and he intends to keep talking, and listening, forever. He was born hungry into a big family of Boston Irish strivers, and he's stayed hungry: for literature (Russians, Victorians, Transcendentalists, Roth-Bellow-Updike); for the music of Brahms, Ellington and Chucho Valdes and his own piano time; for spiritual study in the Hebrew-Christian bible and Gospel singing at the Twelfth Baptist Church in Boston; for family life, and gardening and exotic travel.
In the background now are too many years in straight journalism, covering city and state politics for the Boston Globe and presidential campaigns (McGovern, Humphrey, Reagan, Carter et al.) for the New York Times, anchoring "The Ten O'Clock News" at WGBH-TV in Boston, and founding "The Connection" with Mary McGrath at WBUR.
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