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American Experience; Clinton, Part 2

11/19/2011

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Series

American Experience

Program

Clinton, Part 2

Program Number

2404

Series Description

Premiered October 1988 As television's longest-running, most-watched history series, American Experience brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that helped form this nation. Now in its eighteenth season, the series has produced over 180 programs and garnered every major broadcast award. Series release date: 10/1988

Program Description

Special American Experience 2 hour presentation. First part broadcast Feb. 20, 2012.

The biography of a president who rose from a broken childhood in Arkansas to become one of the most successful politicians in modern American history, and one of the most complex and conflicted characters to ever stride across the public stage. From draft dodging to the Dayton Accords, from Monica Lewinsky to a balanced budget, the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton veered between sordid scandal and grand achievement. Clinton had a career full of accomplishment and rife with scandal, a marriage that would make history and create controversy, and a presidency that would define the crucial and transformative period between the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9-11.

The latest installment in the critically acclaimed and successful series of presidential biographies, Clinton follows the president across his two terms as he confronted some of the key forces that would shape the future, including partisan political warfare and domestic and international terrorism, and as he struggled with uneven success to define the role of American power in a post-Cold War world. Most memorably, it explores how Clinton’s conflicted character made history, even as it enraged his enemies and confounded his friends.

An Ark Media film for AMERICAN EXPERIENCE.

Duration

01:52:00

Asset Type

Broadcast program

Media Type

Video

Genres

Documentary

Topics

History

Citation

Chicago: “American Experience; Clinton, Part 2,” 11/19/2011, GBH Archives, accessed October 11, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_7086B32D581247EF86B67665CC7995D8.

MLA: “American Experience; Clinton, Part 2.” 11/19/2011. GBH Archives. Web. October 11, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_7086B32D581247EF86B67665CC7995D8>.

APA: American Experience; Clinton, Part 2. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_7086B32D581247EF86B67665CC7995D8