The Washington Post, November 7th, 1999
Once again, Americans will watch as Ken Burns raises the country's lost voices. He's been doing it now for two decades, like a spiritualist who beckons viewers to gather around their TVs. But there's no need for hand-holding, candles or incantations on these occasions as filmmaker Burns channels the spirits of the past. There were the soldiers and leaders, famous and obscure, whom Burns brought to life in "The Civil War." There were the long-gone players of "Baseball," and the ghosts of Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark and Frank Lloyd Wright, all conjured up for television. "It's like a seance,...
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