Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Unapix / a-Pix Ent.
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1999
• Run Time: 45 minutes
• ASIN: 1575234718
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #460,895 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Author of bestselling Citizen Soldiers and Undaunted Courage and biographer of Eisenhower and Nixon, Stephen Ambrose has the rare ability to tell the history of the American democracy equally well from the perspective of soldiers in trenches as from Presidents and five-star generals. In World War II and the Post War Era, a program from American Heritage's Great Minds of American History series, Ambrose tells a wealth of first-hand, personal stories--from breakfasting with a President in a diner to a tongue-tied, young Topeka soldier's meeting with Eisenhower. In less than an hour, interviewer Roger Mudd draws out the best of Ambrose's copious historical scholarship on some of the best-known figures of the last half-century, including Eisenhower, MacArthur, McCarthy, and Nixon. Ambrose is so at home with this period of history that he can make statements such as, "MacArther lied his way out of every problem he ever got into," and back them up. Viewers should be prepared for an interesting, although disturbing, discussion of trench foot. This video will make a good addition to the history library of novices and World War II buffs alike, although novices will want to supplement it with something more structured. --Tara F. Chace