A Companion to Gerald R Ford and Jimmy Carter 1st Edition by Scott Kaufman 1444349945 9781444349948

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ISBN 10: 1444349945 

ISBN 13: 9781444349948

Author: Scott Kaufman

With 30 historiographical essays by established and rising scholars, this Companion is a comprehensive picture of the presidencies and legacies of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.

• Examines important national and international events during the 1970s, as well as presidential initiatives, crises, and legislation
• Discusses the biography of each man before entering the White House, his legacy and work after leaving office, and the lives of Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, and their families
• Covers key themes and issues, including Watergate and the pardon of Richard Nixon, the Vietnam War, neoconservatism and the rise of the New Right, and the Iran hostage crisis
• Incorporates presidential, diplomatic, military, economic, social, and cultural history
• Uses the most recent research and newly released documents from the two Presidential Libraries and the State Department

Table of contents:

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

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