Table of 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