Lynn Novick

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• 8/19/18
  

  Emmy Voters: It’s Time to Brush Up on Your History

  by Michael Stewart Foley

  The PBS series on Vietnam may have made a big splash. But that doesn’t mean it’s the last word on the subject.

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• 8/10/18
  

  The Ken Burns/Lynn Novick Vietnam Documentary Has Been Nominated for an Emmy in Several Categories

  by Barbara Myers

  It doesn’t deserve an award for its content.

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• 8/12/18
  

  This Social Scientist’s Verdict on the Ken Burns/Lynn Novick Vietnam War Documentary

  by James W. Russell

  The film is well made, engrossing, and fundamentally wrong in key respects.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher ED
  1-9-18
  

  Historians were MIA from the Ken Burns/Lynn Novick documentary

  And they’re upset about that.

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• 12-31-17
  

  Frances FitzGerald Reconsidered

  by Gary Kulik

  She won all the prizes for her history of Vietnam, but scholars don’t think much of “Fire in the Lake.”

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• SOURCE: Hollywood Chamber of Commerce
  11-14-17
  

  Ken Burns’ ‘The Vietnam War’ Averaged 6.7M Viewers For PBS, Reached 34M

  These ratings results mean The Vietnam War is the second-highest-rated Burns/Novick film of the past two decades, following The War in 2007.

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• SOURCE: NY Review of Books
  11-14-17 (accessed)
  

  So what does Frances FitzGerald think of the Vietnam War documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick?

  by Frances FitzGerald

  She generally likes the film but worries that the emphasis on stories may obscure larger meanings.

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• 12-15-17
  

  Have We Missed the Big Picture of What Happened in Southeast Asia with Our Laser Focus on Vietnam?

  by Wen-Qing Ngoei

  America lost in Vietnam but won the Cold War beyond it.

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• 10-28-17
  

  Ken Burns's Gift to Conservatives

  by Leonard Steinhorn

  His documentary on Vietnam mocks the young who fought for social change.

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• 10-8-17
  

  Vietnam in the Rearview Mirror: Why Victory Was an Illusion

  by John Prados

  Ken Burns’s and Lynn Novick’s implicit “honor the troops” undertone makes this documentary a platform for the neo-orthodox culture war players.

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• SOURCE: Real Clear Politics
  10-4-17
  

  Luke Nichter says the Burns/Novick Vietnam documentary was unfair to Nixon, among others

  by Luke A. Nichter

  He says the tapes show Nixon’s Vietnam policy wasn’t solely motivated by his re-election prospects.

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• 10-8-17
  

  The Creation of the Unprecedented PBS Series "The Vietnam War"

  An Interview with Co-Director Lynn Novick

  by Robin Lindley

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  10-3-17
  

  Jonathan Zimmerman asks: What’s So Bad About Ken Burns?

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  There’s one big reason that academic historians turn up their noses at his popular documentaries: sour grapes.

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• 10-1-17
  

  What Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Want Us to Believe Is that Americans Were Innocents in Vietnam

  by Ron Briley

  We weren’t and our history of imperialism proves it.

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• 9-29-17
  

  What’s Missing From the Vietnam War Documentary?

  by Jeffrey P. Kimball

  Why the US waged war in Vietnam.

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• Ken Burns’s War Stories

  by Bob Buzzanco

  He’s more storyteller than historian and that weakens his series considerably.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9-18-17 (accessed)
  

  How the Vietnam War Broke the American Presidency

  by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

  The war opened the credibility gap. What we’ve learned since has only widened it.

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• SOURCE: PBS
  9-6-17 (accessed)
  

  How ‘The Vietnam War’ Surprised Co-Director Lynn Novick

  “So much of what I thought I knew just turned out not to be correct,” says Novick.