We’re back with the second part of our discussion of
President Jimmy Carter and his times. On
this episode we cast our eye beyond the United States and discuss the
tumultuous foreign events that took place during the late 1970s in Asia, Africa,
and Latin America. Why is Jimmy Carter,
a president who brokered a historic peace agreement between Israel and Egypt,
remembered as a weak leader who presided over American decline on the world
stage?
We wrap up with a discussion of Carter’s post-presidency and
ask, is he the greatest of all the post-presidents?
Also, we should note that we recorded this podcast before
the sad news that Jimmy Carter has been diagnosed with cancer.
Thanks again for listening,
Mark and Malcolm
@ahtoopodcast
Reading for both podcasts 15a and 15b:
Jimmy Carter, White
House diary (New York: Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, 2010)
Andrew Scott Cooper, The
Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia changed the balance of power in
the Middle East (Oxford: Oneworld
Publications, 2011)
Kenneth Earl Morris, Jimmy
Carter: American moralist (Athens,
GA: University of Georgia Press, 1996)
Scott Kaufman, Plans
Unraveled: The Foreign Policy of the Carter Administration (DeKalb:
Northern Illinois University Press, 2008)
Dominic Sandbrook, Mad
as Hell: the crisis of the 1970s and the rise of the populist Right (New
York: A.A. Knopf, 2011)
‘Jimmy Carter’, PBS
American Experience (2002)
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