Ken Burns’ The National Parks: America’s Best Idea begins its nightly run (twelve hours, in six parts) on PBS Sunday night. Last week, I wrote a column about how its premise—that Big Government saved wilderness and national treasures that private enterprise would have destroyed—is a lot more politically pointed (in the year of the Tea Party) than you’d expect from a Burns documentary about trees. But is it a good miniseries?
It is. For three or four hours. After that, despite all the gorgeous scenery, your feet may start itchin’ to wander.
