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DIED. PHILIP KUNHARDT JR., 78, managing editor of LIFE who went on to produce such historical PBS documentaries as Freedom and The American President; in Chappaqua, N.Y. Kunhardt also wrote numerous books, including The Dreaming Game, about his mother, children's author Dorothy M. Kunhardt, who created the 1940 classic Pat the Bunny...
Airing in two parts on ABC, this four-hour documentary follows the Civil War model by combining archival photographs with excerpts from contemporaneous diaries and letters. The producers -- Philip Kunhardt Jr., a former managing editor of LIFE magazine, and his two sons Peter and Philip III -- have drawn on famous Mathew Brady portraits, as well as an extraordinary collection of Lincoln photos assembled by the elder Kunhardt's grandfather, Frederick Hill Meserve. There is music by Alan Menken (Aladdin), narration by James Earl Jones and readings by a stellar cast of Hollywood celebrities as the voices of the principals...
...same thought, transformed into the rather more memorable "Four score and seven years ago" to open his address dedicating the cemetery at Gettysburg the following November. This engaging anecdote is just one of the many historical delights in A New Birth of Freedom: Lincoln at Gettysburg by Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. (Little, Brown; 263 pages; $22.50). Kunhardt is a superb scene setter. He reminds the reader that Henry Ford was born in 1863, but the nation was still young enough to "remember the faces and handshakes of its founding fathers." And he was able to tap a trove of evocative...
Those hopes rose last December when Time Inc. Magazine Development Editor Philip Kunhardt Jr. marked the fifth anniversary of LIFE'S last regular issue with a five-page memo to Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan, recommending the magazine's rebirth as a monthly. Kunhardt, a former LIFE assistant managing editor, cited the rising prosperity of the magazine industry, a new surge of public interest in photography, the success of the single-issue LIFE editions, and his concern that the public might start to forget LIFE if it did not return soon. In addition, Time Inc.'s new weekly...
Although he is probably best known for the images he captured during the Civil War, Mathew Brady's range as a photographer was vast. Just how vast is shown in Mathew Brady and His World by Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt and Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. (Time-Life Books; 304 pages; $19.95). Using the massive collection of Brady material gathered by the late Frederick Hill Meserve, the editors assemble Brady's portraits of the great (including several haunting shots of a careworn Lincoln), of luminaries from the worlds of politics, literature and the theater, and of such strange creatures...