"The Roosevelts: An intimate history". Le dernier opus de Ken Burns

Je n'ai jamais caché que j'ai été fasciné par la présidence et le personnage de Theodore Roosevlt. J'ai également un fort penchant pour les documentaires réalisés par Ken Burns, particulièrement ceux sur le baseball et le jazz. Vous devinez donc que je me réjouis de la diffusion prochaine de la série "The Roosevelts" qui propose un regard sur Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt et Eleanor Roosevelt. Cet article du Washington Post ne fait rien pour atténuer mon intérêt! Il faut ajouter au talent de Burns la contribution d'une belles brochettes d'historien(ne)s.

 "When at last you turn the television off and return to the present, it’s tempting to wallow in embarrassment over how little our political leaders of either party accomplish now; how pathetic the whole game has become; the sorry ways in which we measure success. None of this is presented as such by the fastidiously objective Burns or the elegant and simple narration of the series, read by Peter Coyote and written by Geoffrey C. Ward. You just get there all on your own.

Besides Coyote and Ward, the rest of the Ken Burns gang is on hand, too: Doris Kearns Goodwin, David McCullough, George F. Will and the usual panoply of historians supply necessary and trenchant shorthand; Paul Giamatti reads letters and speeches in the voice of Teddy Roosevelt; Edward Herrmann supplies his familiar patrician FDR tone; Meryl Streep, naturally, gives herself entirely to the task of becoming the voice of Eleanor. The photographic and motion-picture archives keep your eyes fixed on the screen; a viewer is tempted to reach for the smartphone only occasionally, usually to look up and confirm some startling fact or another.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/the-roosevelts-once-you-finish-all-14-hours-youre-sorry-to-see-them-go/2014/09/12/a32ad0c0-3855-11e4-9c9f-ebb47272e40e_story.html?hpid=z4