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On theTube The American President, an epic 10-part series
Roosevelt’s family was, of course,
prominent in New York politics
and included two-time president
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Theodore Roosevelt.
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John F. Kennedy’s father
THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT, was a prominent bootlegger and
the epic ten-part series that tells the businessman who groomed his sons
stories of al I forty-one of America’s for political power, founding a large
chief executives, will premiere and frequently star-crossed dynasty.
The second program that
Sunday, April 9, 2000, 9-11 pm.
(ET) with two one-hour programs will be seen Sunday evening,
presented under the umbrella title, “Happenstance,” explores what
happens when a vice president
“A Matter of Destiny.”
THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT is assumes the Oval Office upon the
death o f his
a co-production
running mate. The
of
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only show to
Productions, Inc.
profile
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and T hirteen/
and irrevocable rift over slavery,
p re s id e n ts ,
WNET
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“Happenstance” but when he left office, the nation
York and is
opens w ith the was closer to civil war.
presented on PBS
THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT is
story o f John
by
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Tyler, who, upon narrated by Hugh Sidey, Time
WNET.
The
the death o f magazine’s White House reporter
series
was
for four decades. S cholarly
W illiam Henry
written, produced
Harrison, took the com m entary is provided by
and directed by
Harvard’s Richard E. Neustadt,
oath ofoffice-and
Philip
B.
whom Arthur Schlesinger has called
set the precedent
Kundhardt, Jr.,
“our most brilliant commentator on
that has been
Philip
B.
the presidency.”
follow ed ever
Kunhardt III, and
A companion volume to the series,
since, insisting that
Peter
W. President Bill Clinton
also
called THE AMERICAN
he
was
the
Kunhardt. The
PRESIDENT,
has been published
president
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every
sense,
not
the
executive producers are Peter W.
by Riverhead Books. The volume
Kunhardt and William R. Grant. acting president, and serving the
has been singled out for praise by
The series’ sole underwriter is New remainder of the term. His steely
many historians and was a main
resolve and competence carried the
York Life Insurance Company.
selection of the Book-of-the-Month
The series will air in two-hour day, helping to ensure the orderly
increments on five consecutive tran sfer o f
nights. Each of the programs profiles p o w e r .
four (or, in one case, five) presidents M i l l a r d
who are 1 inked by a common theme, Fillmore, who
from
and each o f the five evenings rose
presents two programs, further poverty to the
linked by an umbrella theme. The v i c e
programs seen as "A Matter of p re s id e n c y ,
Destiny” on premiere night, Sunday, found himself
April 9 are “Family Ties” and ignored by the
“Happenstance.” “Family Ties” p r e s i d e n t ,
profiles four presidents who were Z a c h a r y
scions o f prominent American Taylor.
As
political families. The prickly, p r e s i d e n t ,
independent John Quincy Adams Fillmore tried
was the son of America’s second to keep the
president, John
A d a m s .
B e n ja m in
H arrison,
a
notably chilly
individual who
was nicknamed
“the
human
iceburg,” wasthe
grandson
of
William Henry
Harrison, a fact
he
never
bothered
to
mention during
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his cam paign.
Jacqueline Kennedy
Franklin Delano
Club.
The centerpiece of the educational
outreach effort is a Web site to
which more than 1,400 American
school teachers have contributed,
www.americanpresident.org.
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Association
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