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"I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions." -Elizabeth Taylor A whole lot of printer ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get swept up to accelerate on the lives of America's most significant women and men in the time it takes to complete a commute, while learning interesting facts long ignored or never known. Hollywood is filled with cautionary stories for child stars like Judy Garland, Jackie Coogan, and Macaulay Caulkin, who all soared to fame in their junior only to suffer family feuds, drug cravings, or other side effects to become famous so early on in life. Even those child stars for whom stardom had not been traumatic, such as Shirley Temple, experienced great difficulty being successful in Hollywood as an adult, with their professions effectively over by the time they reached adulthood. Child stars may or may well not enjoy the fame bestowed after them so early on in life, but their fame has almost always come at a cost, especially since it offers traditionally been problematic for followers to disassociate them off their early roles.
