Frontline and Time magazine step back from the heat of the 1988 presidential campaign to examine, in-depth, the background, character, qualifications, and beliefs of the Republican and Democratic candidates, George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Correspondent Garry Wills assesses their lives and career through the people who know them best.
Sherry Jones
Director

George H. W. Bush
Self

Michael Dukakis
Self

Judy Woodruff
Self

Barney Frank
Self

Ronald Reagan
Self
Garry Wills
Narrator
The Class of ‘9271%
Directed by John Ford70%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Champs63%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Public Speaking70%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Above Majestic73%
McQueen74%
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends71%
Tabloid64%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
My Mom Jayne80%
Gilbert67%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
Looking for Richard68%