American History Too!

‘History’s greatest monster’ or an underrated and admirable president?  We’re back and we’re discussing President Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) and his times.  Such are the amount of topics that we need to cover that the podcast will be split into two, with this month’s release dealing primarily with the domestic issues of late 1970s. Welcome to a land of self-doubt, oil shocks, and a tanking economy, where the issues that would define the ‘culture wars’ for the next four decades were taking shape.  Presiding over it all is the Democratic President James Earl Carter, a born-again Christian from Plains, Georgia who has promised to never lie to the American people.  Was Carter’s presidency consigned to failure by events beyond his control or was the ‘American moralist’ responsible for his own downfall?  Hopefully, by the end of the two podcasts you’ll be able to form your own opinion! Thanks again for listening, Mark and Malcolm @ahtoopodcast Reading for both podcasts 15a and 15b: Jimmy Carter, Whi