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This title provides an authoritative, often surprising account of presidential leadership and presidential failure.

An investigative account of the abuse of power, various scandals, mismanagement and the erosion of credibility by the Carter adminstration. A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter traces Carter's four years of decline from the early promises and high hopes of his campaign through subsequent mismanagement, incompetence, and compromise.

A collection of Jimmy Carter's interviews, campaign speeches, and informal remarks.

"In November 1974, following the historic Watergate scandal, Americans went to the polls determined to cleanse American politics. Instead of producing the Republican majority foreshadowed by Richard Nixon's 1972 landslide, dozens of GOP legislators were swept out of the House, replaced by 76 reforming Democratic freshmen. In The Class of '74, John A. Lawrence examines how these newly elected representatives bucked the status quo in Washington, helping...

Outrageous and down right hilarious observations about the body politic and impolitic in the Jimmy Carter age.

"In The Trusteeship Presidency, the distinguished political scientist Charles O. Jones portrays President Carter's seemingly antipolitical approach to politics and how it affected his often strained relations with Congress. Using the extensive interviews conducted with President Carter and senior members of the White House shortly after Carter's term ended, Jones considers the political context of Carter's extraordinary nomination and electoral victories...

A collection of Buchwald's humorous columns portraying current goings-on in Washington.

Publisher description: The massive inflation and oil crisis of the 1970s damaged Jimmy Carter's presidency. In Jimmy Carter's Economy, Carl Biven traces how the Carter administration developed and implemented economic policy amid multiple crises and explores how a combination of factors beyond the administration's control came to dictate a new paradigm of Democratic Party politics. Jimmy Carter inherited a deeply troubled economy. Inflation had been...