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The National Parks: America’s Best Idea PBS, 2009, six disks, 720 mins., $99.99. Ken Burns’ latest PBS series focuses on the legacy of America’s national parks, a unique concept at the time of their genesis in the 19th-century West. No other country had set aside land for public enjoyment. It was a truly American idea …
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