Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States (2012); Alfred A. Knopf The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014) with Ken Burns; Alfred A. Knopf The Vietnam War: An Intimate History (2017) Alfred A. Knopf Documentary film scripts With Ken Burns and Florentine Films; shown on Public Television The Vietnam War (2017) The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014) Prohibition (2011, Emmy Award) The War (2007; Emmy Award, 2007) Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2005 Emmy Award, 2005) Mark Twain (with Dayton Duncan, 2002) Jazz (2001) Not for Ourselves Alone (1999) Frank Lloyd Wright (1998) Thomas Jefferson (1997) The West (with Dayton Duncan, 1996) Baseball (principal writer 1994; Emmy Award, 1995) Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (writer, 1991) The Civil War (principal writer, 1990; Emmy Award, 1991) Thomas Hart Benton (writer,1989) The Congress (contributing writer,1989) The Statue of Liberty (co-writer, 1985) Huey Long (writer, 1985) For the American Experience Series, WGBH-TV Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided (with David Grubin, 2001) TR (writer with David Grubin, 1996. Emmy Award) The Last Boss (writer, with Barak Goodman, 1996) The Kennedys (principal writer, 1992; Emmy Award) Reminiscing in Tempo, (principal writer, 1991) Lindbergh (writer, 1990) Nixon (principal writer, 1990; Writers Guild Award) References External links PBS bio 1940 births Living people Oberlin College alumni University of Chicago Laboratory Schools alumni 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers People with polio Documentary war filmmakers 20th-century American male writers