Turner, Ted

Overview

Works:	58 works in 161 publications in 5 languages and 12,950 library holdings
Genres:	Biography Drama History Film adaptations War films Historical films Documentary television programs Popular works Science television programs Nonfiction television programs
Roles:	Author, Interviewee, Author of introduction, Producer, Contributor
Classifications:	HC102.5.T86, B

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Ted Turner

Call me Ted by Ted Turner( Book )
CNN, the inside story by Hank Whittemore( Book )
It ain't as easy as it looks : Ted Turner's amazing story by Porter Bibb( Book )
Citizen Turner : the wild rise of an American tycoon by Robert Goldberg( Book )
Last stand : Ted Turner's quest to save a troubled planet by Todd Wilkinson( Book )

Clash of the titans : how the unbridled ambition of Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch has created global empires that control what we read and watch by Richard Hack( Book )
Me and Ted against the world : the unauthorized story of the founding of CNN by Reese Schonfeld( Book )
Lead, follow or get out of the way : the story of Ted Turner by Christian Williams( Book )
CNBC Titans : Ted Turner( Visual )
Ted Turner speaks : insights from the world's greatest maverick by Ted Turner( Book )
The grand gesture : Ted Turner, Mariner, and the America's Cup by Roger Vaughan( Book )
Ted Turner, television's triumphant tiger by Rebecca Stefoff( Book )
Clash of the titans : how the unbridled ambition of Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch has created global empires that control what we read and watch by Richard Hack( Recording )
Ted Turner : it ain't as easy as it looks by Porter Bibb( Book )
Ted Turner : a biography by Michael O'Connor( Book )
Mei ti di guo : Tai de tou na de dian shi ge ming by Ken Auletta( Book )
Riding a white horse : Ted Turner's goodwill games & other crusades by Althea Carlson( Book )
Call me Ted by Ted Turner( )
T'edŭ T'ŏnŏ, kkum i innŭn sŭngbusa by Ken Auletta( Book )

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Most widely held works by Ted Turner

Gods and generals by Warner Home Video (Firm)( Visual )

2 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 1,401 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain left behind a quiet life and a career as a college professor to fight for the Union. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was a man of great religious faith who served in the defense of the Confederacy. And Gen. Robert E. Lee, who led the Confederate army, was a man who was forced to choose between his loyalty to the United States and his love of the Southern states where he was born and raised. As Chamberlain, Jackson, and Lee are followed through the declaration of war and the battles at Manassas, Antietam, Frederickburg, and Chancellorsville

The racing edge by Ted Turner( Book )

7 editions published between 1979 and 1984 in English and Swedish and held by 238 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Greed by Erich Von Stroheim( Visual )

6 editions published between 1998 and 2011 in English and held by 48 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A discussion of the relative value for society of accumulated excessive personal wealth as it is distributed through philanthropy or invested in economic progress. Greed is seen as a universal motivation that empowers economic growth for all by responding to the needs of consumers

Monday night war : Raw is War vs. WCW Monday Nitro( Visual )

2 editions published between 2003 and 2004 in English and held by 39 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In 1995, two wrestling companies squared off on Monday night television to compete head to head. One one side, Vince McMahon, the promoter who created WWE; on the other, WCW, owned by Ted Turner and run by Eric Bischoff

Citizen Turner : the wild rise of an American tycoon by Robert Goldberg( Book )

2 editions published between 1994 and 1995 in English and held by 34 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Gerald Jay Goldberg and Robert Goldberg - themselves father and son - show how Turner's life has been crucially influenced by the shadow of his alcoholic father. As a boy, Ted, with missionary zeal, went about saving wounded animals; the relentlessly overachieving adult Turner leaps to the rescue of wounded companies and longs to save the world. No stranger to crises - often of his own making - he seems to function best in hurricane winds. In such a context, his efforts to improve the planet's environment and his recent marriage to cinema goddess Jane Fonda take on a new meaning

The pop-up book of Captain Planet and the Planeteers( Book )

2 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 20 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Captain Planet and the Planeteers battle environmental villains who want to destroy the world. Features pop-up and movable illustrations

A Dialogue, Sagan-Turner : a conversation with Carl Sagan & Ted Turner( Visual )

1 edition published in 1989 in English and held by 19 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Updates a number of themes from the Cosmos television series. Turner and Sagan discuss issues that are vital to our survival: pollution, the greenhouse effect, nuclear weapons, etc. Carl Sagan explains the benefits of our space program, the possibility of time travel, etc

Cosmos : a personal voyage by Carl Sagan( Visual )

1 edition published in 1989 in English and held by 15 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Carl Sagan guides viewers through space and time, exploring "the deepest connections of human beings with a vast and awesome universe in which we float like a grain of sand in the cosmic ocean."

Cold War( Visual )

1 edition published in 2012 in English and held by 14 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A sweeping look at nearly five decades of global history, a crystallization of a massive, three-year-long effort helmed by award-winning documentarian Jeremy Isaacs (The World at War). Isaacs's team shot more than 1,000 hours of original footage and gathered archival footage from all over the world to include historically important, and often emotionally stunning, images, many never before seen by an international audience

Cold War( Visual )

1 edition published in 2012 in English and held by 14 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The wall comes down (1989): Dominoes fall: incredibly quickly, the Soviet bloc breaks up, virtually without bloodshed. First Poland, then Hungary, then East Germany slip away from communist control. Gorbachev makes no effort to hold them back with force. Amid scenes of jubiliation, the hated Berlin Wall comes down

Portrait of the Soviet Union( Visual )

4 editions published between 1988 and 1990 in English and held by 14 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A series of short segments within broad related categories exploring the geographic regions of the USSR, their cultures, and their peoples, past and present. Also examines the Soviet Union in World War II and traces the political and ideological changes of the Soviet government from Peter the Great, through the 1917 Revolution, and up to today

Cold War( Visual )

1 edition published in 2012 in English and held by 13 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Vietnam (1954-1958): Vietnam has been divided since the end of French colonial rule. The North is run by communists, the South by anti-communists. Ignoring warnings against involvement in a nationalist struggle, the U.S. commits its armed forces. American protests against the war mount. The U.S. realizes this is not a war it can win

Cold War( Visual )

1 edition published in 2012 in English and held by 13 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Sputnik (1949-1961): In the mid-'50s, the Soviet Union seems to forge ahead. In October 1957, the first Soviet satellite Sputnik orbits the Earth -- to the dismay and fear of the U.S., frustrated by its own ineffectual space program. In 1961, the Soviets launch Yuri Gagarin into space. America will have to meet the challenge

Cold War( Visual )

1 edition published in 2012 in English and held by 13 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Make love, not war (the 1960s): Western economies grow and prosper, fueled partly by armaments production. Rejecting their parents' affluence and the Cold War, many of the young protest and rebel. Racial violence erupts in inner cities. Rock music expresses a disenchanted generation's mood

Cold War( Visual )

1 edition published in 2012 in English and held by 12 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Marshall Plan (1947-1952): The U.S. adopts the Truman Doctrine, pledging to defend freedom worldwide. Secretary of State George Marshall plans to bolster economic recovery in Europe. Seeing this as a threat, Stalin forbids his satellites to participate. The world effectively divides

Call me Ted by Ted Turner( Book )

6 editions published between 2008 and 2010 in English and held by 7 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The great American maverick of our time releases his long-awaited memoir, revealing his lonely childhood, the devastating loss of his father, intimate details of his marriage to Jane Fonda, and his unparalleled success as a businessman and philanthropist

Cheap in America( Visual )

1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 7 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A series of segments variously describing which group in America gives the most to charity, what kind of people give to charity, why do or don't the rich give and what are the effects on people who give to charity

Ted Turner speaks : insights from the world's greatest maverick by Ted Turner( Book )

2 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A sampling of quotes and commentary from Ted Turner providing insight into his thinking about family, idealism, technology, and other topics

The Monday night war( Visual )

1 edition published in 2015 in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A twenty-episode documentary series that follows the stories in and out of the ring of both Vince McMahon₂s WWE and Ted Turner₂s WCW, as they battle head to head in a primetime power struggle that forever changed the face of sports entertainment. This first volume will cover the first ten episodes in this documentary, along with matches and moments from that era

Last stand : Ted Turner's quest to save a troubled planet by Todd Wilkinson( Book )

1 edition published in 2014 in English and held by 0 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

View Last Stand's video trailer! A highly regarded environmental journalist turns his attention to one of the most compelling personalities in American business. Last Stand gives us a new, unexpected lens through which to view a previously unsung hero of conservation and offers prescriptions for the future of conservation

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