Ed Mooney on *The Roosevelts*
I happened on the PBS series, The Roosevelts, a few weeks ago and was utterly taken. Of course I knew previous marvelous Ken Burns documentaries — on Jazz, on Baseball, on the Civil War, and if I’m not mistaken on FDR. This was a three figure portrait, Eleanor, Teddy, and Franklin. It was magnificent and did not leave me dry eyed. I knew Geoff Ward (the writer) from undergraduate days, and have not seen him since. But that decades-old connection was enough to prompt me to write him, and in the process try to articulate — it wasn’t easy — just what made the series so magnificent. I think it approached the humanity of its subjects in a way that few dare in biography or political-social-historical analysis. Maybe following what I wrote, you’ll see what I mean:
I’ve never been as moved by a television series as I was…
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