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A companion to Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter / edited by Scott Kaufman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Wiley-Blackwell companions to American historyPublisher: Chichester, UK : WILEY Blackwell 2016Description: x, 594 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781444349948 (cloth)
  • 1444349945 (cloth)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.09/9
LOC classification:
  • 002 E 176.1 C737 2016
Contents:
Notes on Contributors vii Acknowledgements xi Introduction 1 Scott Kaufman 1 Détente’s Limits: Caught between Cooperation and Confrontation 5Vanessa Walker 2 Beyond Narcissism: Politics and Popular Culture in the Age of Malaise 27Bradford Martin 3 Gerald Ford: From Michigan to Washington 50Scott Kaufman 4 From Plains to Atlanta, 1924–1974 64E. Stanly Godbold, Jr. 5 The Presidency and the Pardon 80Andrew Downer Crain 6 Gerald R. Ford’s Domestic Policy 95Yanek Mieczkowski 7 US Intelligence Agencies during the Ford Years 114Kathryn S. Olmsted 8 Détente’s Disintegration, Neoconservatism, and the Ford Presidency 130Binoy Kampmark 9 Ford and the Armed Forces 149Ingo Trauschweizer 10 Gerald R. Ford: The Press, Popular Culture, and Politics 166Raymond Haberski, Jr. 11 Ford and Ford 181T. Alissa Warters 12 Just a Caretaker? 196Jason Friedman 13 Politics and the Public Mood in 1976 211Nicole L. Anslover 14 Jimmy Carter’s 1976 Presidential Campaign: The Saint, the Sinner, and the Hopeless Dreamer 229Jeffrey Bloodworth 15 The Transition 251John P. Burke 16 Carter, the Soviet Union, Détente, and SALT II 272Jaclyn Stanke 17 Trilateralism 290Kristin L. Ahlberg 18 From East–West to North–South 312Andy DeRoche 19 Carter’s Domestic Dilemmas, 1977–1978 335Timothy Stanley 20 Mrs. President? 350Eryn Kane 21 President Carter and the Press 364Jeffrey Crouch and Elise Tollefson 22 Jimmy Carter, Congress, and the Supreme Court 379Leo P. Ribuffo 23 1979: Year of Crises 410Blake W. Jones 24 The Armed Forces during the Carter Years 430Robert T. Davis II and Scott Kaufman 25 The Center of the Carter Conundrum: Human Rights and Foreign Policy 451William Steding 26 The Election of 1980 470Andrew E. Busch 27 Get Carter: Assessing the Record of the Thirty-Ninth President 491Joe Renouard 28 The Post-Presidential Years of Gerald R. Ford 513Michael A. Davis 29 A Presidency Lost, a Life Gained: Jimmy Carter’s Post-Presidency 532Frances M. Jacobson 30 Agendas, Speakers, and Spokesmen 548John Dumbrell Index 567
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Notes on Contributors vii Acknowledgements xi Introduction 1 Scott Kaufman 1 Détente’s Limits: Caught between Cooperation and Confrontation 5Vanessa Walker 2 Beyond Narcissism: Politics and Popular Culture in the Age of Malaise 27Bradford Martin 3 Gerald Ford: From Michigan to Washington 50Scott Kaufman 4 From Plains to Atlanta, 1924–1974 64E. Stanly Godbold, Jr. 5 The Presidency and the Pardon 80Andrew Downer Crain 6 Gerald R. Ford’s Domestic Policy 95Yanek Mieczkowski 7 US Intelligence Agencies during the Ford Years 114Kathryn S. Olmsted 8 Détente’s Disintegration, Neoconservatism, and the Ford Presidency 130Binoy Kampmark 9 Ford and the Armed Forces 149Ingo Trauschweizer 10 Gerald R. Ford: The Press, Popular Culture, and Politics 166Raymond Haberski, Jr. 11 Ford and Ford 181T. Alissa Warters 12 Just a Caretaker? 196Jason Friedman 13 Politics and the Public Mood in 1976 211Nicole L. Anslover 14 Jimmy Carter’s 1976 Presidential Campaign: The Saint, the Sinner, and the Hopeless Dreamer 229Jeffrey Bloodworth 15 The Transition 251John P. Burke 16 Carter, the Soviet Union, Détente, and SALT II 272Jaclyn Stanke 17 Trilateralism 290Kristin L. Ahlberg 18 From East–West to North–South 312Andy DeRoche 19 Carter’s Domestic Dilemmas, 1977–1978 335Timothy Stanley 20 Mrs. President? 350Eryn Kane 21 President Carter and the Press 364Jeffrey Crouch and Elise Tollefson 22 Jimmy Carter, Congress, and the Supreme Court 379Leo P. Ribuffo 23 1979: Year of Crises 410Blake W. Jones 24 The Armed Forces during the Carter Years 430Robert T. Davis II and Scott Kaufman 25 The Center of the Carter Conundrum: Human Rights and Foreign Policy 451William Steding 26 The Election of 1980 470Andrew E. Busch 27 Get Carter: Assessing the Record of the Thirty-Ninth President 491Joe Renouard 28 The Post-Presidential Years of Gerald R. Ford 513Michael A. Davis 29 A Presidency Lost, a Life Gained: Jimmy Carter’s Post-Presidency 532Frances M. Jacobson 30 Agendas, Speakers, and Spokesmen 548John Dumbrell Index 567

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.

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