Companion to Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter

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.

Examines important national and international events during the 1970s, as well as presidential initiatives, crises, and legislation
Discusses the biography of each man before entering the White House, his legacy and work after leaving office, and the lives of Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, and their families
Covers key themes and issues, including Watergate and the pardon of Richard Nixon, the Vietnam War, neoconservatism and the rise of the New Right, and the Iran hostage crisis
Incorporates presidential, diplomatic, military, economic, social, and cultural history
Uses the most recent research and newly released documents from the two Presidential Libraries and the State Department

Scott Kaufman is Professor of History at Francis Marion University. He is the author of Rosalynn Carter: Equal Partner in the White House (2007), Plans Unraveled: The Foreign Policy of the Carter Administration (2008), and Project Plowshare: The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosives in Cold War America (2013).

Autorentext
Scott Kaufman is Professor of History at Francis Marion University. He is the author of Rosalynn Carter: Equal Partner in the White House (2007), Plans Unraveled: The Foreign Policy of the Carter Administration (2008), and Project Plowshare: The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosives in Cold War America (2013).

Zusammenfassung

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.

• Examines important national and international events during the 1970s, as well as presidential initiatives, crises, and legislation
• Discusses the biography of each man before entering the White House, his legacy and work after leaving office, and the lives of Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, and their families
• Covers key themes and issues, including Watergate and the pardon of Richard Nixon, the Vietnam War, neoconservatism and the rise of the New Right, and the Iran hostage crisis
• Incorporates presidential, diplomatic, military, economic, social, and cultural history
• Uses the most recent research and newly released documents from the two Presidential Libraries and the State Department

Leseprobe
Notes on Contributors

Kristin L. Ahlberg is the Assistant to the General Editor in the Office of the Historian, US Department of State. She is the author of Transplanting the Great Society: Lyndon Johnson and Food for Peace (2008); co-compiler of Foreign Relations of the United States , 1969-1976, vol. XXXVIII, Foundations of Foreign Policy, 1973-1976 (2012); and editor of Foreign Relations of the United States , 1977-1980, vol. I, Foundations of Foreign Policy (2014).

Nicole L. Anslover is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University Northwest. She is author of Harry S. Truman: The Coming of the Cold War (2013), and is presently working on a manuscript on US policy toward Vietnam from the Truman through the Johnson administrations.

Jeffrey Bloodworth is Associate Professor of History and chair of the Department of History and Archaeology at Gannon University. He is author of The Wilderness Years: A History of American Liberalism, 1968-1992 (2013), and is presently working on a biography of a former speaker of the House, Carl Albert.

John P. Burke is Professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont. He is the author of two books and numerous articles on presidential transitions. He is also co-author of How Presidents Test Reality: Decisions on Vietnam 1954 and 1965 (1989), which won the 1990 Richard E. Neustadt Award from the American Political Science Association for the best book on the presidency.

Andrew E. Busch is Crown Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College, where he teaches courses on American government and politics. He has authored or co-authored thirteen books on American politics, including most recently After Hope and Change: The 2012 Elections and American Politics (2013) and Truman's Triumphs: The 1948 Election and the Making of Postwar America (2012). Busch received his BA in political science and history from the University of Colorado-Boulder and his MA and PhD in government from the University of Virginia.

Andrew Downer Crain is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the University of Michigan Law School. The author of The Ford Presidency (2009), he has served in a number of legal, corporate, and academic positions, including scholar in residence at the University of Colorado at Buffalo. Presently, he is the general counsel at Frontier Communications in Stamford, Connecticut.

Jeffrey Crouch is an Assistant Professor of American Politics at American University. His first book, The Presidential Pardon Power , was published in 2009. His research focuses primarily on the Constitution, the presidency, and the separation of powers.

Michael A. Davis is an Associate Professor of History at Liberty University and the author of a forthcoming book on the wartime presidential campaign of 1944. He received his PhD in history from the University of Arkansas. He lives with his wife, Holly, and their three girls in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Robert T. Davis II received his PhD in modern European history from Ohio University and currently teaches at the US Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He is the author of two studies, The Challenge of Adaptation: The US Army in the Aftermath of Conflict, 1953-2000 (2008) and The US Army and the Media in the 20th Century (2009), and editor of US Foreign Policy and National Security: Chronology and Index for the Twentieth Century (2010).

Andy DeRoche teaches history at Front Range Community College and international affairs at the University of Colorado. His books examine United States policy toward Zimbabwe and the life of Andrew Young. DeRoche is currently writing about Zambian/American relations during Kenneth Kaunda's pre

Inhalt

Notes on Contributors vii

Acknowledgements xi

Introduction 1

Scott Kaufman

1 Détente's Limits: Caught between Cooperation and Confrontation 5
Vanessa Walker

2 Beyond Narcissism: Politics and Popular Culture in the Age of Malaise 27
Bradford Martin

3 Gerald Ford: From Michigan to Washington 50
Scott Kaufman

4 From Plains to Atlanta, 19241974 64
E. Stanly Godbold, Jr.

5 The Presidency and the Pardon 80
Andrew Downer Crain

6 Gerald R. Ford's Domestic Policy 95
Yanek Mieczkowski

7 US Intelligence Agencies during the Ford Years 114
Kathryn S. Olmsted

8 Détente's Disintegration, Neoconservatism, and the Ford Presidency 130
Binoy Kampmark

9 Ford and the Armed Forces 149
Ingo Trauschweizer

10 Gerald R. Ford: The Press, Popular Culture, and Politics 166
Raymond Haberski, Jr.

11 Ford and Ford 181
T. Alissa Warters

12 Just a Caretaker? 196
Jason Friedman

13 Politics and the Public Mood in 1976 211
Nicole L. Anslover

14 Jimmy Carter's 1976 Presidential Campaign: The Saint, the Sinner, and the Hopeless Dreamer 229
Jeffrey Bloodworth

15 The Transition 251
John P. Burke

16 Carter, the Soviet Union, Détente, and SALT II 272
Jaclyn Stanke

17 Trilateralism 290
Kristin L. Ahlberg

18 From EastWest to NorthSouth 312
Andy DeRoche

19 Carter's Domestic Dilemmas, 19771978 335
Timothy Stanley

20 Mrs. President? 350
Eryn Kane

21 President Carter and the Press 364
Jeffrey Crouch and Elise Tollefson

22 Jimmy Carter, Congress, and the Supreme Court 379
Leo P. Ribuffo

23 1979: Year of Crises 410
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