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"What, you may ask, is easygoing, noncommital (except when it comes to food) Calvin Trillin doing at The Nation, that most earnest and austere of political journals? Well, he's not writing political humor--not really; no, he's just having chiefly non-partisan fun in a political neighborhood, and so will readers of these 50 short columns from 1978-81."--
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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.
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"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...
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"The Carter presidency is the most underappreciated of the last century. Often considered just a smiling but ineffectual Southerner in a sweater, Jimmy Carter deserves to be remembered instead as a risk taker who did what he felt was right, not what would be politically expedient, whose legacy led to presidential successes long after his term, and whose list of lasting achievements reshaped the country. Stuart Eizenstat saw everything firsthand. As...
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"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...
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