There were no subtle mastery, no acute opening day strokes to be admired in memory by middle-aged fans two generations from now.
What, he wondered, if the Holocaust were to be forgotten in the same way, two or three generations from now? "In 1994 I promised that all this must remain for future generations.
Eleven generations from now, if we alter something and it doesn't work properly we will simply fix it".
"One generation from now, we may not click on banner ads, but we'll always be pulling into traffic, filing health insurance claims, buying clothes in retail stores, turning up our thermostats.
"It is the most important work of constitutional scholarship in the two generations from the time it was published to now," said Mark Tushnet, a law professor at Georgetown University, echoing a widely held view.
As always he ties the foreground stories into the long arc of his family history, and the film powerfully conveys the terrifying transformation of American fatherhood in the space of just two generations, from the 1950s to now.
