[1] Most episodes were broadcast from a location of significance to the person being profiled, and featured interviews and discussion with a variety of experts.

The list of persons profiled was selected by C-SPAN producer Mark Farkas and historian Richard Norton Smith, who was a consultant to the series.

[2] Smith described the objective of their efforts as follows: To give viewers an alternative school of American political history, in particular.

It has famously been observed that the winners write the history books, and there's a lot of truth to that.

There's another whole story line... and even more, on the biographical level, there are 14 people in this series, many of whom I guarantee viewers may never have heard of.