| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 772 pages : illustrations (some color), plates, photographs (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
I: The pre-presidency. The past is never dead -- A peculiar heritage -- The populist from Plains -- Jimmy who? -- II: The Presidency. Mr. Carter goes to Washington -- White House life -- Life is unfair -- Lancegate -- Depatures in foreign policy -- "Israel trusts no one" -- Washington distractions-- Troubles with liberals -- Troubles with a speechwriter -- Triumph at Camp David -- "A weird period for liberals" -- An Ayatollah's revolution -- Tilting against American exceptionalism -- "You should fire people" -- Foreign policy imbroglios -- Much ado about nothing -- Fateful decisions -- An unhappy spring -- Whipping Kennedy's ass -- The October surprise -- The defeat -- White House twilight -- III: The post-presidency. Keeping faith -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
"Bird traces the arc of Carter's administration, from his aggressive domestic agenda to his controversial foreign policy record, taking readers inside the Oval Office and through Carter's battles with both a political establishment and a Washington press corps that proved as adversarial as any foreign power. Bird shows how issues still hotly debated today-from national health care to growing inequality and racism to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict-burned at the heart of Carter's America, and consumed a president who found a moral duty in solving them. A definitive account of an enigmatic presidency-both as it really happened and as it is remembered in the American consciousness, this is a profound, clear-eyed evaluation of a leader whose legacy has been deeply misunderstood." -- Book jacket. |
| Subject |
Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
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| Subject(S) |
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1977-1981.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1977-1981.
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Plains (Ga.) -- Biography.
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9780451495235 (hardcover) |
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0451495233 (hardcover) |
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