Posted on 09/13/2014 8:10:16 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Let’s start with the end. When it’s over — when you make it through the marathon that is Ken Burns’s beautiful, seven-part documentary “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History,” which begins Sunday night on PBS — you may find yourself with a lingering, nebulous grief. You’re sorry it’s over. You’re sorry they’re over. You’re sorry a certain expression of American ideals is, or often appears to be, completely over.
My study habits haven’t improved since college; like an idiot, I put off watching all 14 hours of “The Roosevelts” until I absolutely had to watch them on a deadline binge this week. Yes, the entire series sat on my desk for most of the summer, while there was still plenty of time to savor it. When I emerged from my office for a break, midway through the amplified noise of World War I, a co-worker reminded me (spoiler alert) that all of the major players eventually die, so why bother watching the whole thing? Why not skip ahead or skim through most of it?
Because I was absorbed. Within the first hour, “The Roosevelts” will probably have you hooked in a way that Burns and his collaborators haven’t quite achieved since 2007’s “The War.” Unlike the intimidating climb offered by “National Parks” or “Prohibition,” you easily glide through “The Roosevelts’ ” sublimely constructed narrative arc. The series is among Burns’s best works.
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Somebody give Hank a kerchief.
He’s got a little on his chin.
The legacy of the Roosevelts--big government, imperial presidencies, New Dealism and welfare-state socialism--is far, far from over.
Read this far.
I miss the time before they came along, myself. Capitalism, prosperity, no gibmedats, low taxes.
Libs gotta have something inspiring to watch besides Obama playing golf.
Ouch.
I could be interesting but like I told my wife, I’m not smitten with the Roooooosevelts.
Nope - not even 14 minutes.
But he *did* have an open Communist as a VP.McCarthy would have been wrong to claim that everyone in government was a Commie but he was right to say that all too many were,including FDR's VP.
Our tax dollars are funding this little Nancy!
I’ll go to my grave a happy man if I can know that progressivism has been erased from the face of the earth.
America is still paying into a deficit for Roosevelt’s fabian utopia. Every. Damned. Day.
“I miss the time before they came along, myself. Capitalism, prosperity, no gibmedats, low taxes.”
You mean the time of the progressives, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson?
This country will never recover from them.
That looks like Chuck Todd?
Any bio of Roosevelt is lacking if it doesn’t include Gabriel Over the Whitehouse. It was Roosevelt’s ideal situation on film. Meant to support his power grabs.
I imagined when they said “The Roosevelts” they were including Teddy. Wilson is a horse of a different color. Still the worst president this country has ever had, although Mr. Obama is trying.
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