Geoffrey C. Ward, Author, Ken Burns, Author, Dayton Duncan, Author . Knopf $40 (288p) ISBN 978-0-375-40561-7
In 1867, after successfully marketing accounts of his Mideast travels to several newspapers, Mark Twain wrote to his mother, "Am pretty well known now. Intend to be better known." But he could hardly have anticipated the meteoric rise that...
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Dayton Duncan, Author Penguin Books $13.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-14-008362-0
New Hampshire journalist Duncan retraces the route taken by the Lewis and Clark expedition, introducing readers to the small towns and people of the modern West, in what PW termed ""an offbeat story that successfully combines history, travel and...
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Dayton Duncan, Author Viking Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-80822-9
Tracing the route taken by the Lewis and Clark expedition leads a modern traveler to a lot dead ends; as New Hampshire journalist Duncan discovered, time and civilization have wrought change. Driving a battered camper, he made two summer journeys...
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Dayton Duncan, Author Viking Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-81851-8
Duncan's sympathetic narrative follows a handful of campaign volunteers in New Hampshire's Cheshire County during the year leading up to and including Presidential Primary Day 1988. He describes what prompted each of these grass-rooters to become...
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Dayton Duncan, Author Viking Books $22.5 (336p) ISBN 978-0-670-83195-1
A perceptive and engaging observer, Duncan ( Out West: An American Journey ) set out in 1990 aboard the GMC Suburban truck he dubbed the Conestoga to describe life in several vast, underpopulated Western counties ``where a land-hungry nation nibbled
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Dayton Duncan, Author, Ken Burns, Author , read by the authors with Tom Hanks, Philip Bosco, Kevin Conway et al. Random House Audio $24.95 (, unabridged, three CDs, 3 hrs., $24.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-7393-0635-2
In 1903, Horatio Nelson Jackson, a 31-year-old doctor from Vermont, made a bet that he could drive a car from San Francisco to New York. At the time, there were only 150 miles of paved roads in the U.S., many of them east of the Mississippi. Most...
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Dayton Duncan, Author, Marge Piercy, Author, Ken Burns, Author . Knopf $24.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-375-41536-4
Technological revolution makes the unthinkable routine—and what could be more quotidian than an automobile trip across America? Yet at one time such a notion seemed about as likely to succeed as jumping Niagara in a barrel. Burns and Dayton...
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Ken Burns, Author, Dayton Duncan, Author Knopf $50 (432p) ISBN 978-0-307-26896-9
Duncan and Burns, who last teamed on Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip, rejoin in this visually stunning guide to the unforgettable landscapes and fascinating history of America's national parks. A companion to the...
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Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns. Knopf, $55 (560p) ISBN 978-0-525-52054-2
This voluminous and hugely entertaining introduction to country music coincides with the release of the eponymous PBS series, by producer and writer Duncan (Out West) and producer and filmmaker Burns (The Civil War). The authors take readers through
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Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns. Knopf, $40 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-53734-3
Producer Duncan and documentary filmmaker Burns (The Dust Bowl) present an elegiac complement to their PBS series, The American Buffalo. The authors highlight how Indigenous people lived with, revered, and used buffalo for food and shelter for...
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