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F E A T U R E
en Burns has spent the better part of his career
contemplating American life in all of its marvelous,
multitudinous complexity. The documentarian has
burrowed into baseball, honored the Shakers, and
stood in awe of the Brooklyn Bridge. He has traced the origins
of jazz and profiled one of America's most illustrious polit-
ical families, the Roosevelts. He has celebrated the national