Summary
"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 odyss... Full description
- 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
- Epilogue.