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...CIVIL WAR (PBS, Sept. 23-27). For five consecutive nights, Ken Burns' 12- hour documentary series will chronicle the nation's bloodiest conflict, using interviews, archival footage and readings by such people as Morgan Freeman and Jason Robards from documents...
Awful superlatives issue forth like cannon fire from PBS's documentary series The Civil War. More than 620,000 Americans died during the conflict, more than in World Wars I and II and Vietnam combined. At the Battle of Antietam alone, 23,000 were killed or wounded, the bloodiest single day of the war. By 1864 the Union Army was the largest in the world, and Washington the most fortified city on earth. The Andersonville, Ga., prison housed so many Union POWs that it ranked as the fifth most populous city in the Confederacy...
LEARNING IN AMERICA: SCHOOLS THAT WORK (PBS, Sept. 5, 9 p.m. on most stations). Roger Mudd is the anchor for a special on elementary schools that are using innovative teaching approaches...
Louisiana has not been slighted in recent cookbook publishing, but Paul Prudhomme's blackened everything has overshadowed the basics such as red beans and rice and pralines. Justin Wilson, who has a Cajun-cooking show on PBS, has remedied that with his humorous tome, Homegrown Louisiana Cookin' (Macmillan; $19.95). Biscuits, Spoonbread, and Sweet Potato Pie by Bill Neal (Knopf; $19.95) serves the same purpose for Southern baking. It is comprehensive and sparingly illustrated...
...this reclusive 44-year-old San Jose State University history professor receiving so much attention? His boosters say it is because Steele's deft prose has invigorated a stale debate. "There is a freshness to his writing," says producer Thomas Lennon, who persuaded Steele to do the PBS special Seven Days in Bensonhurst after reading one of his essays in Harper's. "By making himself his own laboratory, he cuts at familiar issues in a very unfamiliar way." Says author Stanley Crouch, like Steele a critic of affirmative action: "One of the most important things he is doing is questioning...