Ric Burns is best known for his work on the acclaimed PBS series
The Civil War, which he produced with Ken Burns and wrote with Ken
Burns and Geoffrey C. Ward, and for which he received two Emmy
Awards and the Producer of the Year award of the Producers Guild of
America. For public television, he has also directed the
award-winning documentaries Coney Island, The Donner Party, and The
Way West.
James Sanders, an architect, has written for the New York Times,
the Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, and Architectural Record. He
has completed design and development projects for the Port
Authority of New York and New Jersey, the Parks Council, the
Landmarks Preservation Commission, and other civic groups and
commercial clients in New York and Los Angeles.
Lisa Ades most recently produced The Way West, a six-hour
documentary for national broadcast on PBS. In 1992, she received
Peabody and D. W. Griffith awards for producing The Donner Party.
Before co-producing Coney Island with Ric Burns in 1990, she was a
producer at New York's public television station WNET on the
nightly public affairs series The Eleventh Hour.
“This book combines striking illustrations with scintillating
essays to produce
a superb history of the world’s first city.”
—Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
“A ravishing book . . . It can easily fill a winter of reading and
browsing.”
—New York Times
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