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...week ride on the New York Times best-seller list, Bennett has plumbed and profited from America's anxiety over the decline in standards of moral behavior. The success of his first Virtues anthology spawned two profitable sequels and a cartoon show, which debuted last week on PBS. Meanwhile, he has co-written a new book called Body Count, to be published this month, which blames the rise of young criminal predators on a "moral poverty" born of negligent parenting, welfare dependency and too-easy divorce. And Bennett's ubiquity on talk shows and opinion pages drives the most lucrative...
...imagined the response The Book of Virtues would elicit, with 2.3 million copies sold to date. Bennett followed with an illustrated Children's Book of Virtues; a separate anthology aimed at adults, The Moral Compass; and the PBS cartoon series in which a buffalo named Plato (who bears a strong resemblance to Bennett) leads a pair of children through animated moral tales...
Locating the reality behind the myth is what TV documentarian Ken Burns does for a living, most famously in The Civil War, his hugely popular 1990 PBS mini-series. Yet even as he cuts through the myth, Burns doesn't shy away from the mythic. History, in his view, is full of seminal characters and emblematic stories, of great deeds that launched new eras and small discoveries that "changed everything." The Burns style has by now become as familiar, not to say formulaic, as an episode of Friends: the long, slow pans over archival photographs, the dramatically lighted talking heads...
...West--produced and directed by a Burns protege, Stephen Ives, but overseen by Burns as executive producer--is both more restrained and more resonant: a sweeping, thoughtful, often moving look at America's conquest of the West, from the early European explorers to the dawn of the 20th century. PBS is airing the series on eight nights over the next two weeks, smack in the middle of the networks' well-hyped fall premieres. (Little, Brown has also published a handsome companion book.) It's a mission that might seem as foolhardy as Custer's, but The West has much...
This week network executives were scheduled to meet with the President at the White House to discuss ways to improve educational TV shows for children. Series like Kratts' Creatures and the equally inventive Bill Nye the Science Guy on PBS stand out as models of the stylishly energetic kind of programming TV ought to be aiming...