Ulysses S. Grant:

A biography of Ulysses S. Grant, one of America's most paradoxical leaders, a brilliant military strategist who rose from obscurity to the presidency. Propelled into the White House by his battlefield success, Grant lacked the political skills to deal with the issues of the era. His two terms w...

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Format: Video VHS
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: [Alexandria, Va.] PBS Video c2002
Ausgabe:PBS video index version
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Zusammenfassung:A biography of Ulysses S. Grant, one of America's most paradoxical leaders, a brilliant military strategist who rose from obscurity to the presidency. Propelled into the White House by his battlefield success, Grant lacked the political skills to deal with the issues of the era. His two terms were rocked by bitter racial conflict and corruption scandals. After leaving office, Grant was financially ruined by the collapse of an investment house in which he had placed his assets. He spent his final days battling cancer while finishing his epic war memoirs
Beschreibung:VHS.. - PBS Video database accessed via World Wide Web. - Specially prepared set enhanced by PBS with time code visible on the screen. - Supplemented by the "PBS VIDEOdatabase of America's History & Culture Merged Index" which provides subject references to specific videocassette volume numbers within the series and to specific locations within individual videocassettes according to on-screen counter numbers indicating number of minutes and seconds elapsed within a specific referenced videocassette. - Curriculum resources available on database for video. Videos in database referenced by grade level, academic area, historical period, and standards correlation. Selected lesson plans for instructors available on database. - Originally presented on PBS as a segment of American experience
Narrator, Liev Schreiber
Camera, Terry Hopkins, Buddy Squires, Boyd Estus ; music, Michael Whalen ; part. 1: written, produced and directed by Adriana Bosch ; edited by Jon Neuburger ; part 2: written, produced and directed by Elizabeth Deane ; edited by Bill Lattanzi
[pt. 1.] Episode I. The warrior -- [pt. 2.] Episode II. The president
Beschreibung:2 videocassettes (240 min.) sd., col. and b&w 1/2 in

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