Suchergebnisse

The Past Is Never Dead -- A Peculiar Heritage -- The Populist from Plains -- Jimmy Who? -- 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 -- Keeping Faith

1. Détente's Limits: Caught between Cooperation and Confrontation -- 2. Beyond Narcissism: Politics and Popular Culture in the Age of Malaise -- 3. Gerald Ford: From Michigan to Washington -- 4. From Plains to Atlanta, 1924--1974 -- 5. The Presidency and the Pardon -- 6. Gerald R. Ford's Domestic Policy -- 7. US Intelligence Agencies during the Ford Years -- 8. Détente's Disintegration, Neoconservatism, and the Ford Presidency -- 9. Ford and the Armed Forces -- 10. Gerald R. Ford: The Press, Popular Culture, and Politics -- 11. Ford and Ford -- 12. Just a Caretaker? -- 13. Politics and the Public Mood in 1976 -- 14. Jimmy Carter's 1976 Presidential Campaign: The Saint, the Sinner, and the Hopeless Dreamer -- 15. The Transition -- 16. Carter, the Soviet Union, Détente, and SALT II -- 17. Trilateralism -- 18. From East--West to North--South -- 19. Carter's Domestic Dilemmas, 1977--1978 -- 20. Mrs. President? -- 21. President Carter and the Press -- 22. Jimmy Carter, Congress, and the Supreme Court -- 23. 1979: Year of Crises -- 24. The Armed Forces during the Carter Years -- 25. The Center of the Carter Conundrum: Human Rights and Foreign Policy -- 26. The Election of 1980 -- 27. Get Carter: Assessing the Record of the Thirty-Ninth President -- 28. The Post‐Presidential Years of Gerald R. Ford -- 29. A Presidency Lost, a Life Gained: Jimmy Carter's Post‐Presidency -- 30. Agendas, Speakers, and Spokesmen

"Based on newly declassified documents, this book offers a provocative new analysis of President Jimmy Carter's political role in Arab-Israeli diplomacy. It sets forth a novel analysis of the reflexive relationship between domestic politics and foreign policy, especially the role the American Jewish community and pro-Israel lobby groups like AIPAC played in the development and promulgation of Carter's Arab-Israeli policy. As Carter became directly involved in fostering an Egyptian-Israeli dialogue, the Camp David Accords, the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty, and the beginning of Palestinian autonomy talks, his positions grew intertwined with U.S. politics. This dynamic is not unique in American history, but in Carter's term it exerted unprecedented influence both on Arab-Israeli policy and his domestic standing. The insights revealed by this new research shed a revealing light on current issues with the American political process and the Middle East"--