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Presidential Historian: Time To Rehabilitate Jimmy Carter

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Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley wrote for the Daily Beast in February 2013, just before the Oscars. Argo, about the Iran hostage crisis, had become Best Picture favorite–and with it Hollywood was beginning to rehabilitate Jimmy Carter.

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