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Depressions 1929 United States Jazz History and criticism United States History 1901-1953 United States History 1945-1953 United States History 1953-1961 United States History 1961-1969 United States History 1969 United States History Study and teaching United States Politics and government 1901-1953 United States Politics and government Study and teachingSummary: Seabiscuit’s fame as a champion racehorse was unexpected yet it was timely. In the 1930s, when American’s longed to escape the grim realities of the Great Depression, Seabiscuit became the working man’s hero. Despite his boxy build, stumpy legs, scraggly tail, and ungainly gait, he was one of the most remarkable Thoroughbred racehorses in history. Seabiscuit, from the PBS American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This Bill Moyers program features news correspondent Richard Strout, who covered Washington and the White House from 1925 to his retirement in 1984. Strout's reports, filed for the Christian Science Monitor and The New Republic, are studied here not only as chronicles of American history but as milestones circumscribing our nation's capital-and its evolution from a "small town" to the nerve...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010