Outlier

The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

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Kai Bird (duplicate): Outlier (2021, Crown Publishing Group, The)

English language

Published May 4, 2021 by Crown Publishing Group, The.

ISBN:
978-0-451-49525-9
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5 stars (1 review)

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gimme more Carter bios

5 stars

I've read one or two of Carter's autobiographical works, the biography by Jonathan Alter, and now this one. From what I can remember of Alter's work, that is the one I still highly recommend, but there's no reason you should read just one Carter bio, and this one is also comprehensive, I would say lighter on the childhood and early years (in fact, the section covering his early political career seemed so choppily written I speculated the author was impeded by a bout of covid, the timing seems right, or an overly aggressive editor), but really digs in through the presidential years, especially, a topic painful to my heart, the likelihood that the Reagan campaign sabotaged the Iranian hostage release. The post-presidential years are some consolation, and my e-reader told me there was another 20 percent of the book covering that but was misled, a huge chunk of that is …

Subjects

  • Carter, jimmy, 1924-
  • Presidents, united states
  • United states, politics and government, 1977-1981
  • United states, foreign relations, 1961-1981