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The Outlier
- The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
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“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 Review)
An essential re-evaluation of the complex triumphs and tragedies of Jimmy Carter’s presidential legacy - from the expert biographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of American Prometheus
Four 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 Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird deftly unfolds the Carter saga as a tragic tipping point in American history.
As president, Carter was not merely an outsider; he was an 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 be losing his re-election bid - and witnessing the ascendance of Reagan.
In these remarkable pages, 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.
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 presidency - both as it really happened and as it is remembered in the American consciousness.
Reseñas de la Crítica
“This beautifully written book will take its place alongside other superb one-volume biographies of American presidents. The Outlier will raise readers’ estimates of Jimmy Carter’s term in office.” (Robert Dallek, New York Times best-selling author of Franklin D. Roosevelt and An Unfinished Life)
"An ‘outlier’ among politicians, Carter shows what democratic politics could be, if the power-hungry, dishonest figures would just get out of the way. Bird’s book offers a rich and compelling account of Carter’s sincere efforts to make American policies match the nation’s ideals.” (The Washington Post)
“A bracing reminder that the 39th president was a man of probity, decency, high hopes, and high moral standards.... Bird’s take on whom he calls ‘our most enigmatic president’ is relentlessly fair-minded. [The Outlier] redeems [Carter’s] presidency and reminds us of how callous we might have been during his years in office.” (The Boston Globe)
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Ronald Reagan today is a conservative icon, celebrated for transforming the American domestic agenda and playing a crucial part in ending communism in the Soviet Union. In his masterful new biography, H. W. Brands argues that Reagan, along with FDR, was the most consequential president of the 20th century. Reagan took office at a time when the public sector, after a half century of New Deal liberalism, was widely perceived as bloated and inefficient, an impediment to personal liberty.
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Very little about Reagan
- De Jack Merritt en 07-30-15
De: H. W. Brands
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The Age of Eisenhower
- America and the World in the 1950s
- De: William I. Hitchcock
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 25 h y 38 m
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In a 2017 survey, presidential historians ranked Dwight D. Eisenhower fifth on the list of great presidents, behind the perennial top four: Lincoln, Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Teddy Roosevelt. Historian William Hitchcock shows that this high ranking is justified. Eisenhower's accomplishments were enormous and loom ever larger from the vantage point of our own tumultuous times.
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A Very Thorough and Balanced Biography
- De John en 05-28-18
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The Good Spy
- The Life and Death of Robert Ames
- De: Kai Bird
- Narrado por: René Ruiz
- Duración: 14 h y 47 m
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The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history - a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West. On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded outside the American Embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people. The attack was a geopolitical turning point. It marked the beginning of Hezbollah as a political force, but even more important, it eliminated America’s most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East - CIA operative Robert Ames.
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Biased but interesting
- De Peggy en 05-09-18
De: Kai Bird
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His Very Best
- Jimmy Carter, a Life
- De: Jonathan Alter
- Narrado por: Michael Boatman
- Duración: 31 h y 4 m
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Growing up in one of the meanest counties in the Jim Crow South, Carter is the only American president who essentially lived in three centuries: his early life on the farm in the 1920s without electricity or running water might as well have been in the nineteenth; his presidency put him at the center of major events in the twentieth; and his efforts on conflict resolution and global health set him on the cutting edge of the challenges of the 21st.
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Unbiased biography of a complex president
- De P Willis en 10-08-20
De: Jonathan Alter
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A Full Life
- Reflections at Ninety
- De: Jimmy Carter
- Narrado por: Jimmy Carter
- Duración: 7 h y 45 m
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Jimmy Carter, 39th president, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherman, reflects on his full and happy life with pride, humor, and a few second thoughts.
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Loved it
- De Scott Volltrauer en 08-19-16
De: Jimmy Carter
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An Ordinary Man
- The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford
- De: Richard Norton Smith
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 36 h y 8 m
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From the preeminent presidential scholar and acclaimed biographer of historical figures including George Washington, Herbert Hoover, and Nelson Rockefeller comes this eye-opening life of Gerald R. Ford, whose presidency arguably set the course for post-liberal America and a post-Cold War world.
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Must-read Polemic
- De allison h eid en 10-17-23
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Reagan
- The Life
- De: H. W. Brands
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 31 h y 41 m
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Ronald Reagan today is a conservative icon, celebrated for transforming the American domestic agenda and playing a crucial part in ending communism in the Soviet Union. In his masterful new biography, H. W. Brands argues that Reagan, along with FDR, was the most consequential president of the 20th century. Reagan took office at a time when the public sector, after a half century of New Deal liberalism, was widely perceived as bloated and inefficient, an impediment to personal liberty.
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Very little about Reagan
- De Jack Merritt en 07-30-15
De: H. W. Brands
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The Age of Eisenhower
- America and the World in the 1950s
- De: William I. Hitchcock
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 25 h y 38 m
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In a 2017 survey, presidential historians ranked Dwight D. Eisenhower fifth on the list of great presidents, behind the perennial top four: Lincoln, Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Teddy Roosevelt. Historian William Hitchcock shows that this high ranking is justified. Eisenhower's accomplishments were enormous and loom ever larger from the vantage point of our own tumultuous times.
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A Very Thorough and Balanced Biography
- De John en 05-28-18
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The Good Spy
- The Life and Death of Robert Ames
- De: Kai Bird
- Narrado por: René Ruiz
- Duración: 14 h y 47 m
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The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history - a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West. On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded outside the American Embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people. The attack was a geopolitical turning point. It marked the beginning of Hezbollah as a political force, but even more important, it eliminated America’s most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East - CIA operative Robert Ames.
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Biased but interesting
- De Peggy en 05-09-18
De: Kai Bird
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Reagan
- An American Journey
- De: Bob Spitz
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 32 h y 29 m
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More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable documents, and infused with irresistible storytelling charm, Bob Spitz's Reagan stands fair to be the first truly post-partisan biography of our 40th president, and thus a balm for our own bitterly divided times. Absorbing and richly detailed, it is a revelatory chronicle of the full arc of Ronald Reagan's epic life - giving full weight to the Hollywood years, his transition to politics and successful run as California governor, and ultimately, his iconic presidency.
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Pretty obvious this was written by a Democrat
- De Amazon Customer en 11-04-19
De: Bob Spitz
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President Carter
- The White House Years
- De: Stuart E. Eizenstat, Madeleine Albright - foreword
- Narrado por: Brian Troxell, Madeleine Albright, Stuart E. Eizenstat - preface & introduction
- Duración: 37 h y 24 m
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Stuart E. Eizenstat was at Jimmy Carter’s side from his political rise in Georgia through four years in the White House, where he served as Chief Domestic Policy Adviser. He was directly involved in all domestic and economic decisions as well as in many foreign policy ones. Famous for the legal pads he took to every meeting, he draws on more than 7500 pages of notes and 350 interviews of all the major figures of the time, to write the comprehensive history of an underappreciated president—and to give an intimate view on how the presidency works.
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Book Like Administration: Well-Meaning But Flawed
- De John David en 06-06-18
De: Stuart E. Eizenstat, y otros
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Richard Nixon
- The Life
- De: John A. Farrell
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 28 h y 54 m
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Richard Nixon opens with young navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns of that now legendary 1946 campaign, Nixon's finer attributes quickly gave way to unapologetic ruthlessness. It is a stunning overture to John A. Farrell's magisterial portrait of a man who embodied postwar American cynicism.
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Well balanced and proportioned
- De Tad Davis en 06-04-17
De: John A. Farrell
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Destiny and Power
- The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- De: Jon Meacham
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 25 h y 10 m
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Drawing on President Bush’s personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on extraordinary access to the 41st president and his family, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham paints an intimate and surprising portrait of an intensely private man who led the nation through tumultuous times.
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Fair and insightful
- De Jean en 12-02-15
De: Jon Meacham
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Reagan
- His Life and Legend
- De: Max Boot
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 28 h y 45 m
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From best-selling biographer Max Boot comes this revelatory portrait, a decade in the making, of Ronald Reagan, the actor-turned-politician whose telegenic leadership ushered in a transformative conservative era in American politics. Despite his fame as a Hollywood star and television host, Reagan remained an enigma—a man of profound contradictions—even to those closest to him. Believing that this inscrutability contributed to Reagan’s appeal, Max Boot sought to reveal the real man behind the mythology.
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Reaganland
- America's Right Turn 1976-1980
- De: Rick Perlstein
- Narrado por: Samantha Desz, Jonathan Todd Ross, Jacques Roy, y otros
- Duración: 45 h y 18 m
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Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three definitive works about the emerging dominance of conservatism in modern American politics. With the saga's final installment, he has delivered yet another stunning literary and historical achievement. In late 1976, Ronald Reagan was dismissed as a man without a political future: defeated in his nomination bid against a sitting president of his own party, blamed for President Gerald Ford's defeat, too old to make another run.
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This Book is Censored by Audible
- De Nathan D. Backlund en 09-07-20
De: Rick Perlstein
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Bush
- De: Jean Edward Smith
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 25 h y 2 m
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In Bush, Jean Edward Smith demonstrates that it was not Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, or Condoleezza Rice, but President Bush himself who took personal control of foreign policy. Bush drew on his deep religious conviction that important foreign-policy decisions were simply a matter of good versus evil. Domestically, he overreacted to 9/11 and endangered Americans' civil liberties.
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Delusions of Competence
- De Rick en 11-18-16
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Being Nixon
- A Man Divided
- De: Evan Thomas
- Narrado por: Bob Walter
- Duración: 20 h y 29 m
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In this revelatory biography, Evan Thomas delivers a radical, unique portrait of America’s 37th president, Richard Nixon, a contradictory figure who was both determinedly optimistic and tragically flawed. One of the principal architects of the modern Republican Party and its “silent majority” of disaffected whites and conservative ex-Dixiecrats, Nixon was also deemed a liberal in some quarters for his efforts to desegregate Southern schools, create the Environmental Protection Agency, and end the draft.
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Sympathetic bio
- De Scott en 07-27-15
De: Evan Thomas
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Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
- Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978
- De: Kai Bird
- Narrado por: Joe Caron
- Duración: 15 h y 58 m
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Through a blend of memoir and history, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Kai Bird recounts the Western experience in the Middle East and just why it has been so turbulent. Through Bird ’s Zelig-like presence, the reader experiences the Suez War of 1956, the June 1967 War, and the Black September hijackings of 1970 that led to the Jordanian Civil War. Bird ’s memoir also shows how all of these momentous events led to the rise and tragic downfall of a secular Arab nationalist ethos.
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The reading is atrocious
- De Ari en 07-18-10
De: Kai Bird
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Barack Obama
- The Story
- De: David Maraniss
- Narrado por: David Maraniss
- Duración: 24 h y 21 m
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In a groundbreaking work based on hundreds of interviews, including with President Obama, and a trove of letters, journals, and other documents, one of our pre-eminent journalists presents a richly textured account of Barack Obama and the forces that shaped him. This book begins in Kansas and Kenya, decades before Obama was born, and ends as he prepares for a political life. The listener gains a deeper insight into the first black president of the United States, revealing as never before the arc of his history.
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Solid Work @ Debunking Fairy-Tales & Dark Fantasms
- De Darwin8u en 06-20-12
De: David Maraniss
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An Unfinished Life
- John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
- De: Robert Dallek
- Narrado por: Richard McGonagle
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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An Unfinished Life is the first authoritative single-volume life of John F. Kennedy to be written by a historian in nearly four decades. Drawing upon firsthand sources, freshly unearthed documents, and never-before-opened archives, prizewinning historian Robert Dallek reveals more than we ever knew about Jack Kennedy forever changing the way we think about his life, his presidency, and his legacy.
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It’s abridged!!
- De Brad en 02-17-18
De: Robert Dallek
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Our Endangered Values
- America's Moral Crisis
- De: Jimmy Carter
- Narrado por: Jimmy Carter
- Duración: 4 h y 50 m
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In Our Endangered Values, Carter offers a personal consideration of "moral values" as they relate to the important issues of the day. He puts forward a passionate defense of separation of church and state, and a strong warning of where the country is heading as the lines between politics and rigid religious fundamentalism are blurred.
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A thoughtful and insightful work
- De William H. en 11-05-05
De: Jimmy Carter
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- Karen Gaulke
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Arthur Morey was masterful. Great book, but not quite as great as “His Very Best, by Johnathan Alter.
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- Santa Fe Stan
- 09-14-23
An easy listen very informative and thoughtful
I greatly enjoyed this easy going, clear yet thorough retelling of the Carter years. Carter’s unique background and approach are reflected in this well written book.
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- Peter E. Wells
- 07-01-23
Honest Assessment of the Carter Presidency
This books discusses the Carter Presidency in detail.
It gives an honest assessment of what went right and what went wrong.
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- aaron
- 06-17-21
Nice to be reminded what a GREAT narrator is
Kai Bird is one of the best biographers alive today. I long for the day that his biography on the Bundy brothers, Color of Truth is released on Audible. I remember reading it on a whim when I was in Third Grade, and finding it to be remarkable.
In accordance with Mr. Bird's talents, this book is well-researched, well-paced, and exquisitely detailed. It's pretty much everything you could ask for in a biography. The attention he pays to The Deep South and Carter's being brought up in such a unique place and time in history is particularly laudable.
And it was nice to be reminded that there truly are OUTSTANDING narrators out there, and Arthur Morey is one of them.
Overall, if you have ANY interest whatsoever in learning more about Carter, this book is well worth your time.
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- Ted W
- 11-16-21
Fascinating
A fascinating look at Jimmy Carter's four years in the White House. Mr. Bird also writes about aspects of Mr. Carter's early life and his post-presidency in this engaging and satisfying story.
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- Tomer Elbaum
- 03-01-23
The Jimmi Carter song of praise
The auther is extremely biased towards Carter. Every one of the many mistakes Carter made were attributed to his stuff, the media and the circemstances. Every one of the successes, and there weren't many of them, were solely attributed to Carter and no one else.
When the auther cliamed that his major achievement was to put a solar panel in the roof of the white house, or that the Israeli-Pestinuan Oslo agreements were due to his ex-president "moral support" to Yasser Arafat, I actually laughed.
Still, the book is well written, Carter is a very interesting human being and the author provide an interesting review of the relevant historic events.
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- Jake hicks
- 04-23-23
timely
A timely look at a seriously underrated President and the revelations about the Shai raises some troubling questions about his “us friends”.
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- 11-16-23
Awesome narrator and a great story
A great story on a President I knew very little about. Excellent narration as well.
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- Steve S.
- 07-31-21
Informative, well presented and engrossing
What a fine book! What a fine reader! and, in retrospect, what an amazing person Jimmy Carter is! I found the well presented material for much of the Carter presidency highly interesting and became so faacinated that I found myself searching for any additional minutes within my busy day that I could find to listen to this book that I had a hard time putting down. It leaves me, hefty though it is, with a wish to start all over and go through the book yet once again.
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- PK energy
- 08-17-23
A nuanced biography
Bird has delivered another great bio.
Fair with both criticism & parise with many moving parts.
Carter had his faults (but is far and away our best former president) but has never been given ful credit for his accomplishments.
A great man of faith who always operated with good intentions.
Bird highlights the roles of Xbig, David Rockefeller and others in bringing the Shah to the US - precipitating the hostage crisis.
Zbig come off as the hawkish villan he was!
He properly roasts Bill Casey & Reagan for the treasonous work to dely the release of the Iranian hostages and deliver the 1980 election to Reagan.
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