In one of those increasingly rare moments where the History Channel actually dedicates a feature to the chronicling of history, their series The Presidents has built an 8-episode-long coverage of every president from George Washington to George W. Bush. Though students of American history often learn the great accomplishments of our nation’s leaders, it’s not uncommon for schools to gloss over in a single sentence the accomplishments of William Henry Harrison, Rutherford B. Hayes, or Zachary Taylor, or as The Simpsons calls them “The Mediocre Presidents”. History’s The Presidents rectifies this with factoid heavy segments on each president, revealing the strengths of their character and legacy, as well as their greatest mistakes.
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- 5/2/2012
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
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