This is America, Charlie Brown: Back when I was a kid, there would be prime time specials which my entire family would look forward to. Back in 1988 I was glued to our big RCA television in the living room when these came on and luckily Mom recorded them on our then new GE VCR that my dad paid $300 for. Since then I have dug out the old VHS tapes and have watched them since (with the original cartoons no less) so these have great nostalgic appeal to me now to see them presented so nicely on DVD.

My only complaint is that as I've grown older and have studied more history I find the presentation to be a bit biased in the topics they cover and in the way in which they are covered. For example in the presidents episode they cover such lesser presidents as Teddy Roosevelt and they give near orgasmic affection to FDR, the amoral womanizing socialist who was one of our worst presidents, while skipping over such important presidents as Washington, Jefferson Coolidge, Madison and Monroe. At least they covered Lincoln somewhat fairly.

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