What Thoreau Meant by Quiet Desperation

Podcast: Documentary First: Conversations on Documentary Filmmaking · Christian Taylor | Documentary First

Opublikowano: 2026-04-02

He edited nearly every Ken Burns film since The Civil War. He still didn't know who he was. Henry David Thoreau wrote that most people lead lives of “quiet desperation.” But what did he actually mean - and what does it look like inside a successful career? That’s the question Christian Taylor explores in this episode of Documentary First: The Deep Dive, after her conversation with Erik and Christopher Ewers, two brothers who just directed a three-part, three-hour PBS documentary on Thoreau. The film is narrated by George Clooney, with Jeff G...