re: Rank your favorite Ken Burns docs

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He hates the South and he hss never been afraid to let it be known.

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Well if he does, he picked the wrong guy in Shelby Foote to be his source material for the Civil War doc.

It's no secret Foote is from Mississippi and says his shaping as a youth was during Jim Crow...and it's no secret that critics have claimed his 3 Volume Narrative on the Civil War is heavily Pro-Southern.

IDK how much his upbringing influenced his writing...I don't really care...

Because it's the best writing on the Civil War ever.

Which is why Ken Burns used it and him extensively. There are a million other books and historians out there who have covered the Civil War till kingdom come...

But Burns chose Shelby Foote - a supposed Southern sympathizer.

So if your premise is correct, Burns is an idiot. Picking a Pro-Southern Lost Cause Advocate for his series.