Ken Burn’s The Civil War: Historians Respond. Edited by Robert Brent Toplin.
first edition
1996 · New York
by Toplin, Robert Brent; Ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. First Edition. Octavo, blue & brown boards (hardcover), gilt letters, x, 197 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. Burn’s documentary The Cvil War made television history, breaking all viewing records for a PBS series. .Yet many professional historians criticized it sharply for ignoring the roles of minorities, pointing to a lack of women and of blacks throughout, a disregard for the aftermath of the war (particulrly its legacy to race relations), a conventional emphasis on military history rather than social history, and uneven coverage of the military campaigns that gave short shrift to the bloody Western front. Ken Burn’s Civil War brings together detractors, supporters, and Ken Burns himself in a volume that will inspire readers to look again at this stunning documentary, at the way television shows history, and at the Civil War itself. (Inventory #: 05186scs)