Ken Burns

Review: Muhammad Ali, by Ken Burns ( photo by Neil Leifer) In Part III of The Sea And The Mirror, his remaking of The Tempest, W. H Auden has Caliban break every single literary wall. In form and function, it is a departure for the poet and Shakespeare reader, as…

Maybe I am an unregenerate old white male but I am still trying — My wife gave me an unexpected but wonderful Christmas gift this past year. Even in its wrapping, it was easy to tell it was a big book, maybe a coffee table size. It was Sam Burn’s Our America A Photographic History. Penguin House introduces it this way. In Our America…

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Rumble, young man, rumble. Ahhhhhh!” This catchphrase from the Greatest boxer of all-time, Muhammad Ali, still ring in my ears as I write about the legend.” — “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Rumble, young man, rumble. Ahhhhhh!” This catchphrase from the Greatest boxer of all-time, Muhammad Ali, still ring in my ears as I write about the legend. After 8-hours of rarely seen footage, insightful interviews from those people who knew him best, and…

DEROS Vietnam by Doug Bradley DEROS Vietnam: Dispatches from the Air-Conditioned Jungle presents a unique, fictional montage of the war, and postwar…warriorspublishing.com Yes, that sound? It sure wasn’t Buffalo Springfield singing “For What It’s Worth.” It belonged to an acerbic voice, one that sounded as if it was laced with equal parts marijuana and barbed wire… It was January 1, 1971. I’m feeling sorry for myself because I still had more 182…

…I get it, the Ken Burns/PBS Orthodoxy has grown into a giant franchise on the order of Walt Disney, together creating their own adjectives such as “Burnsian” and “Disneyfied”. But in the wake of the Burns-treatment, there is some sanctimonious fallout and distortion of truth. If you asked Ken Burns…

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“The U.S. and the Holocaust” is a Masterful Work of Living History That Ultimately Blames Human Nature for the Failures of Democracy — Midway through watching the new three-part PBS series from Ken Burns about America’s response to the Holocaust, I turned to my wife and remarked, “Americans on the political extremes don’t respond well to this kind of history.” She nodded and we briefly talked about what I meant, then went back…

The provocative question from the newest Ken Burns film — My favorite filmmaker, Ken Burns, just released a new film on the Holocaust. Given that he has previously done films on World War II and the Roosevelts, it is not surprising that he tackled a topic from that same time period. Some might dismiss his films as boring documentaries but…

Last night I attended a preview of the latest Ken Burns documentary about the U.S. response to the Holocaust and the discussion afterwards with Burns and his two co-directors Sara Botstein and Lynn Novick, moderated by Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic magazine. Daniel Mendelsohn, a scholar and author who…