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Article: THOMAS JEFFERSON THE MAN FROM MONTICELLO KEN BURNS TURNS HIS ATTENTION TO MAN WHO EMBODIES AMERICA'S ENIGMATIC NATURE.(Television)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- February 17, 1997
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The latest effort from PBS's franchise documentarian, Ken Burns, is a little different from other Burns-sponsored productions. There were no photographs in Jefferson's time, so the sepia-toned history we embraced in ``The Civil War'' and in last year's ``The West'' gives way to a more colorful portrait starring the bricks-and-mortar embodiment of Jefferson's soul: his beloved Monticello.
Monticello at dawn. Monticello at dusk. Monticello in the mist. Monticello in a heavier mist. Monticello from every angle conceivable. If we didn't know better, Ken Burns might have been producing a three-hour episode of ``This Old House.''
Even so, ``Thomas Jefferson'' ...