An Outsider in the White House: Jimmy Carter, His Advisors, and the Making of American Foreign Policy Review

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An Outsider in the White House: Jimmy Carter, His Advisors, and the Making of American Foreign Policy ReviewWhat makes a good president? What makes a great president? Who influences the president? How does the president work with congress? These are questions that arise every day when we watch President Obama work with congress to improve health care or to confront the dangers of the radicalized Middle East. Betty Glad is the perfect guide to power and influence in the White House. Glad gives a real insider's view of how power and influence played their parts in major decisions and initiatives in the Carter White House.
The book isn't light reading. Glad challenges her readers and expects them to pay attention as she sets the stage and presents the major players in the SALT talks, turning over of the Panama Canal, normalization of relations with China, and Carter's push for human rights around the globe. An appendix provides a quick review section of the "actors" involved in each challenge or initiative the Carter administration faced so that by the end of the book, I felt that I recognized key administration officials like Richard Holbrooke, Cyrus Vance, or Zbigniew Brzezinski when they would walk into a meeting.
Carter was the first president I voted for. I remember how my initial idealism turned into frustration - Why was a man as good as Carter and as smart as Carter running into so many road blocks? Glad's book has given me a framework with which to look at Carter and the many accomplishments of his presidency that is a bit more nuanced than the good guys/ bad guys framework I had in 1977. Let's see if I can give up some of the hero worship and use Glad's more balanced framework to follow the actors, the challenges, and the initiatives that will make up the Obama presidency.
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