9780451495242 - The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter von Bird, Kai (6 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 784 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - "Important . . .[a] landmark presidential biography. . . Bird is able to build a persuasive case that the Carter presidency deserves this new look."The New York Times Book ReviewAn essential re-evaluation of the complex triumphs and tragedies of Jimmy Carter's presidential legacyfrom the expert biographer and Pulitzer Prizewinning co-author of American PrometheusFour decades after Ronald Reagan's landslide win in 1980, Jimmy Carter's one-term presidency is often labeled a failure; indeed, many Americans view Carter as the only ex-president to have used the White House as a stepping-stone to greater achievements. But in retrospect the Carter political odyssey is a rich and human story, marked by both formidable accomplishments and painful political adversity. In this deeply researched, brilliantly written account,Pulitzer Prizewinning biographerKai Bird deftly unfolds the Carter saga as a tragic tipping point in American history.As president, Carter was not merely an outsider; he wasan outlier. He was the only president in a century to grow up in the heart of the Deep South, and his born-again Christianity made him the most openly religious president in memory. This outlier brought to the White House a rare mix of humility, candor,and unnerving self-confidence that neither Washington nor America was ready to embrace. Decades before today's public reckoning with the vast gulf between America's ethos and its actions, Carter looked out on a nation torn by race and demoralized by Watergate and Vietnam and prescribed a radical self-examination from which voters recoiled. The cost of his unshakable belief in doing the right thing would belosing his re-election bidand witnessingthe ascendance of Reagan.In these remarkable pages, Birdtraces 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 todayfrom national health care to growing inequality and racism to the Israeli-Palestinian conflictburned at the heart of Carter's America, and consumed a president who found a moral duty in solving them.Drawing on interviews with Carter and members of his administration and recently declassified documents, Bird delivers a profound, clear-eyed evaluation of a leader whose legacy has been deeply misunderstood. The Outlier is the definitive account of an enigmatic presidencyboth as it really happened and as it is remembered in the American consciousness.

Zustand: New. Kai Bird&#160is an award-winning historian and journalist. Executive director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, he is the acclaimed author of biographies of John J. McCloy, of McGeorge and William Bundy, Robert Ames, and President Jimmy Carter.