You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living. (Ken Burns)

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

Ken Burns

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