The American President

Format: 5 DVDs Runtime: 600 minutes Closed captioned: No Described Video: No

Who were the U.S. presidents? What did they accomplish? What qualities defined them, both as public figures and private men?

In this made-for-PBS documentary series, brilliantly adapted from the acclaimed book The American President, these questions and others related to the presidents are answered with rare insight and intimacy. As in the book, the 41 lives of the 42 presidencies (Grover Cleveland served on separate occasions as the 22nd and 24th president) are not presented chronologically but are, rather, episodically linked by common personal traits and circumstances of their terms in office.