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Review of Jonathan Alter. His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life; Kai Bird. The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter; Stuart E. Eizenstat. President Carter: The White House Years; Rick Perlstein. Reaganland: America's Right Turn.
- Source :
- New Global Studies; Jul2023, Vol. 17 Issue 2, p243-255, 13p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- The Trilateral Commission provided many of the individuals who would guide foreign policy in the Carter administration, but there is an opening for a more sustained history of the connection between the intellectual evolutions of the period and the Carter administration. Finally, Kai Bird's I The Outlier i and Jonathan Alter's I His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life i hope to rescue Carter's achievements and humble character from the doldrums of history. Carter grew up in a farming community in Plains, Georgia, so small that he has known his wife, Rosalynn, since her birth: "Jimmy's mother, a nurse, delivered Rosalynn, then brought her nearly three year old son over to see the new baby" (Alter, xi). Even Republican operative Roger Stone paid tribute to Carter, saying: "Jimmy Carter was not a great President but he is a good man, a patriotic American and an honest Christian ... May God bless him.". [Extracted from the article]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19400004
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- New Global Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 171353268
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1515/ngs-2023-0023