Ken Burns

And so revolution, you just automatically – so you're not looking.

You've got a chronological structure.

It's already there.

That is to say, and then, and then, and then.

So then how you begin to put it together, you're absolutely right that there's no political thing.

You just want to say, what happened?

And you want to call balls and strikes.

And I would suggest that in our media culture, as diverse and as multitudinous as it is, a kind of tsunami of information, it's relatively the same.

And so we become a kind of...

highlight reel, Babe Ruth only hits home runs.

Well, Babe Ruth struck out way more times than he hit home run.

And more importantly, Babe Ruth only comes up once every nine times at bat.

So sometime, as the last World Series showed you, a second baseman, a middle infielder, not the star, becomes central to the outcome of a very dramatic thing.

And so...

What we've tried to do is always keep that in mind.

Do you scrimp on your biography of Babe Ruth?

No, you tell a complete one.

In this case, the Babe Ruth is George Washington.

We don't have a country without him.

But then you also introduce people to scores of other characters that are bottom up.