Examines the military and political career of the only grandson of a president to become president himself.

Follows the military and political career of the general who became the "Hero of Appomattox" and the eighteenth president of the United States.

This program presents the six-year term of Luis Echeverría, a lifetime bureaucrat who ascended to the presidency immediately following the Tlatelolco Massacre. Despite his efforts to enact populist economic and political reforms, he was blamed for the Tlatelolco massacre by those on the left, while he antagonized the business community and conservatives. Economic instability created tensions that erupted in protests repressed by the military.

Details the coming of age, diplomatic and presidential career, private life, and legacy of America's second president.

An introduction to the life of James Madison, a man of poor health who could not fight in the Revolutionary War but whose ideas formed the core of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and who became the nation's fourth president.