The Dallas businessman who won President Biden’s highest honor for the arts
He created the Mark Twain Prize and inspired Ken Burns. On Biden’s final full day in office, Cappy McGarr got the honor of a ...
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Ken Burns
Ken Burns has been making documentary films ... The Journey of the Corps of Discovery; Frank Lloyd Wright; Mark Twain; Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson; The War; The ...
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Seventieth Birthday Speech
The 70 th birthday of Mark Twain was a lavish affair held at Delmonico’s restaurant in New York City. In introducing Twain, friend William Dean Howells said, “Now, ladies and gentlemen ...
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Ken Burns didn’t mean to be your history education: A Dallas visit with the doc master
If you watched all of Ken Burns’ documentaries back to back ... founder of the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. “The idea for the country music documentary was born ...
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Ken Burns: ‘We are forgetting about our history, that includes the holocaust.’
“Mark Twain supposedly said ... are people numb to them now and no longer react to ‘horror?’ Ken Burns: People react to a good story. There has always been hand wringing about the ...