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Tina Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. She is the author of the 2007 New York Times best seller The Diana Chronicles. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Talk magazines and host of CNBC's Topic A with Tina Brown. Founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast |
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Looking for Lincoln. This smart, moving, funny, and brilliantly crafted film is an historic television event, in this the bicentennial year of Lincoln, a year full of hagiography and hero worship. The cult of Lincoln is as strong as ever, even among historians. But Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has taken an unusually candid and unapologetic look at our nation's greatest president, and deconstructs many of the myths that have beclouded the man for over a century and a half. In the end, Gates renders one of the first nuanced and sensitive three-dimensional portraits of Lincoln as an enormously complicated man, a man very much of his time, yet a man who confronted his prejudices and, in the end, triumphed. |
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No surprise that Henry Gates's Looking For Lincoln is a homerun. He is the best thing on public television or any television
well look at it this way if lincoln didnt have a hand in freeing the slaves then we would have slavery today whether he was or not a racest ask your self this question he didnt have to do anything because maybe they wouldnt of been a civil war just a thought
I don't know who jacklegs is, or what mental institution he escaped from, but he sure is entertaining.
i wish i liked gates more! but he lost me on his series on africa with his deep-down tiresomeness and inaccuracies. maybe i'll take small doses of this show in web clips. sorry fans!
Gates is wonderful-a really good film.
After recent events, in which Gates dishonestly
'cried racism,' behaved very badly, and verbally abused some poor cop for not groveling in front of his vast sense of entitlement that he felt should exempt him from what were obviously normal, reasonable, and necessary police procedures....I just don't think I can trust anything of his.
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