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I have as few ken Burns shows to include The Civil War and Baseball (I own both). I do think that he went a bit soft on the Civil War but through the heavy screen time of Shelby Foote gives a fair account of how Lincoln wanted war and that it wasn't to 'preserve slavery'..
I also enjoyed his show on Lewis and Clark. I thought it was well done.
His show in the Roosevelts didn't hold many punches when it came to their issues as a family but still found a way to be supportive of Progressive politics. I didn't enjoy it as mush mostly because it iritated me to revisit how they really fucked this country.
And I remember Prohibition being Ok. It accounted well how Women's Suffrage movement paved the way for Prohibition and the "Holy shit! That's banned too!" reactions. It also seemed to cover well that Prohibition could not happen without an income tax and that repeal was tied to the government wanting to restore alcohol tax revenue.
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Daniel
GM1 USNR (RET)
Si vis pacem, para bellum
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