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A whole lot of ink has been spilled within the lives of history's most influential characters, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get swept up to rate on the lives of America's most important women and men in the time it takes to complete a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. When People in the usa elected Jimmy Carter in 1976, they appear to have wished an ideal more than a man. The tragedies encompassing Vietnam and the scandal of Watergate, culminating in Richard Nixon's resignation, possessed left the general public bruised and disillusioned. They wished someone they could believe in, someone like themselves, or at least like they wanted to be. They assumed they found that man in Carter. However, they soon learned that, while that they had voted for an ideal, they had obtained a man, with all the current virtues and faults, loves and hates, of another human being, and by the finish of his presidency, many possessed fired up him with the viciousness of disappointed children lashing out at a flawed father or mother.
