President Carter : the White House years /
The Carter presidency is the most underappreciated of the last century. Often considered just a smiling but ineffectual Southerner in a sweater, Jimmy Carter deserves to be remembered instead as a risk taker who did what he felt was right, not what would be politically expedient, whose legacy led to...
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New York :
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Into the White House. The 1976 campaign ; A perilous transition ; The making of the modern Vice President ; A new kind of First Lady ; The indispensable man
- Part II: Energy. The moral equivalent of war ; Energizing Congress ; The Senate graveyard ; Energy and the dollar at the Bonn summit ; Into the pork barrel, reluctantly
- Part III: The environment. An early interest ; The water wars ; Alaska forever wild, despite its senators
- Part IV: The economy. The great stagflation ; The consumer populist ; Saving New York and Chrysler
- Part V: Peace in the Middle East. The clash of peace and politics ; Sadat changes history ; Carter's triumph at Camp David ; A cold peace
- Part VI: Peace in the rest of the world. The Panama Canal and Latin America ; The Soviet Union ; Afghanistan
- Part VII: The unraveling: resignations and reshuffling. The "malaise" speech ; Resignations and reshuffling
- Part VIII: Iran. The rise of the Ayatollah ; The fall of the president
- Part IX: A catastrophic conclusion. "Where's the Carter bill, when we need it?" ; No good deed goes unpunished ; Are you better off ...? ; Final days.