book so what i m going to do is kind of give a fairly informal talk about the main themes of the book. and then i ll read parts of it out to try to emphasize those areas that i think may be of most interest to you. the term malaise is probably the term that most of us associate with jimmy carter s presidency in the long term. it s the term that he s known supposedly to have invented and that has defined his presidency. and one of the best ways to understand the long-term impact of this term defining his presidency, of course, is pop culture. and i m going to talk a little bit about what s known as episode 80 of the simpsons which focuses one of its themes on the citizens of springfield wanting to have a statue of a famous president but, of course, they don t a lot of money so they can t get lincoln or washington. the only thing they can settle on is jimmy carter. .. colossal air on jimmy carter s part in the 80 sensually assured him to be defeated in 1980. i m going to re