Jimmy Carter was an unexpected president. The first Southerner since the Civil War to gain the office, he had pursued the presidency at the grass roots as an outsider. A president who sought to run a government as good as the American people, Carter soon found himself embroiled in system overload as he worked for a domestic agenda to increase park lands, made the federal judiciary accessible to more women and minorities, to better manage the civil service, to devise a rational long-range policy of energy consumption and conservation, and to keep the deficit under control. Deadlock with Congress, special interests, and, ultimately, caught up in the Iran hostage crisis, the outsider president saw many of his programs defeated and himself voted out of office.
With a stellar cast of political figures, headed by President and Mrs. Carter, and with leading scholars of the period, this volume is a major document for a better understanding of the period and the development of the presidency.
Jimmy Carter was an unexpected president. The first Southerner since the Civil War to gain the office, he had pursued the presidency at the grass roots as an outsider. A president who sought to run a government as good as the American people, Carter soon found himself embroiled in system overload as he worked for a domestic agenda to increase park lands, made the federal judiciary accessible to more women and minorities, to better manage the civil service, to devise a rational long-range policy of energy consumption and conservation, and to keep the deficit under control. Deadlock with Congress, special interests, and, ultimately, caught up in the Iran hostage crisis, the outsider president saw many of his programs defeated and himself voted out of office.
With a stellar cast of political figures, headed by President and Mrs. Carter, and with leading scholars of the period, this volume is a major document for a better understanding of the period and the development of the presidency.
A collection of major papers analyzing the domestic policies of the Carter presidency.
The Carter Presidency: Two Perspectives
President Carter, the Democratic Party, and the Making of Domestic
Policy by Stuart E. Eizenstat
The Carter Presidency in Historical Perspective by Erwin C.
Hargrove
The Emergence and Character of Jimmy Carter
The New South
Jimmy Carter and the Sunbelt Report: Seeking a National Agenda by
Edward D. Berkowitz
Jimmy Carter as Spokesman of Southern Liberalism by Donald
Cunnigen
The Role of Religion
American Civil Religion and the Presidential Rhetoric of Jimmy
Carter by Michael J. Adee
Jimmy Carter Was a Baptist President by James A. Speer
The Elections of 1976 and 1980
Campaigner and President: Jimmy Carter's Campaign Promises and
Presidential Performance by Michael G. Krukones
Jimmy Carter and the Selling of the President, 1976-1980 by Leo P.
Ribuffo
The Institutional Presidency
Conceptions of the Presidency
Jimmy Carter and the Age of Limits: Presidential Power in a Time of
Decline and Diffusion by Michael A. Genovese
Legitimacy and Presidential Power: A Constitutional Analysis of
President Carter's Termination of the Mutual Defense Treaty with
Taiwan by Nancy Kassop
A Comparative Test of Jimmy Carter's Character by William D.
Pederson and Kenneth G. Kuriger, Jr.
The Promise of Politician-Scientist: President Carter and American
Science by Joel S. Schwartz
Congressional Relations
Carter and Congress: Presidential Style, Party Politics, and
Legitmate Success by Jon R. Bond
Veto Strategy and Use by the Carter Administration by Samuel B.
Hoff
The Administrative Presidency
Political Constraints, Leadership Style, and Temporal Limits: The
Administrative Presidency of Jimmy Carter by James W.
Riddlesperger, Jr. and James D. King
The Carter Experience with Cabinet Government by Shirley Anne
Warshaw
Budget Strategy in the Carter Administration by Duane Windsor
Media and Public Opinion
Carter and the Media: An Analysis of Selected Strategies Used to
Manage the Public Communication of the Administration by Robert S.
Littlefield
Rafshoonery: The Effort to Control the Communications Agenda of the
Carter Administration by John Anthony Maltese
Staff Reminiscencee
The Spokes of the Wheel in Operation: The Carter Example by Robert
J. Thompson
The First Lady
Rosalynn Carter in the White House by Myra G. Gutin
Domestic Policies
Engery
Economic Aspects of the Carter Energy Program by Marilu McCarty
Seeking Limits: The Passage of the National Energy Act as a
Microcosm of the Carter Presidency by Russell D. Motter
Economics
Economic Advice in the Carter Administration by W. Carl Biven
The Carter Antitrust Policy in Perspective by Theodore P.
Kovaleff
Economic Myth and Economic Reality: A Reexamination of the Carter
Years by Ann Mari May
Civil Service Reform
The Three Faces of Civil Service Reform by Patricia W. Ingraham and
James L. Perry
Human Services
OSHA: Administrative Chaos, Political Conflict, and the Carter
Administrative Response by James E. Cebula
President Carter and Public Health: Presidential and
Post-Presidential Years by William H. Foege
Civil Rights
The Faithfulness of the Carter Administration in Enforcing Civil
Rights by Norman C. Amaker
Labor and Politics
Organized Labor and the Carter Administration: The Origins of
Conflict by Taylor Dark
Fragile Alliance: Jimmy Carter and the American Labor Movement by
Gary M. Fink
Index
HERBERT D. ROSENBAUM recently retired from his position as
Professor of History at Hofstra University. He was the Director of
the Conference on the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1982,
and was also the co-editor of the proceedings of that conference.
He was Director of the Jimmy Carter Conference.
ALEXEJ UGRINSKY is Director for Documentation, Finance, and
Planning at the Hofstra Cultural Center. Both have served as
editors for earlier volumes of the Hofstra Presidency Series
published in conjunction with Greenwood Press.
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