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An Outsider in the White House - by Betty Glad (Hardcover)

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  • Jimmy Carter entered the White House with a desire for a collegial staff that would aid his foreign-policy decision making.
  • About the Author: The late Betty Glad asOlin D. Johnston Professor of Political Science Emerita at the University of South Carolina and author of Jimmy Carter: In Search of the Great White House; Charles Evans Hughes and the Illusions of Innocence; and Key Pittman: The Tragedy of a Senate Insider.
  • 414 Pages
  • History, United States

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Jimmy Carter entered the White House with a desire for a collegial staff that would aid his foreign-policy decision making. He wound up with a "team of rivals" who contended for influence and who fought over his every move regarding foreign affairs.



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Jimmy Carter entered the White House with a desire for a collegial staff that would aid his foreign-policy decision making. He wound up with a "team of rivals" who contended for influence and who fought over his every move regarding relations with the USSR, the Peoples' Republic of China, arms control, and other crucial foreign-policy issues.In two areas--the Camp David Accords and the return of the Canal to Panama--Carter's successes were attributable to his particular political skills and the assistance of Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and other professional diplomats. The ultimate victor in the other battles was Carter's national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, a motivated tactician. Carter, the outsider who had sought to change the political culture of the executive office, found himself dependent on the very insiders of the political and diplomatic establishment against whom he had campaigned.Based on recently declassified documents in the Carter Library, materials not previously noted in the Vance papers, and a wide variety of interviews, Betty Glad's An Outsider in the White House is a rich and nuanced depiction of the relationship between policy and character. It is also a poignant history of damaged ideals. Carter's absolute commitment to human rights foundered on what were seen as national security interests.New data from the archives reveal how Carter's government sought the aid of Pope John Paul II to undercut the human-rights efforts of the El Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero. A moralistic approach toward the Soviet Union undermined Carter's early desire to reduce East-West conflicts and cut nuclear arms. As a result, by 1980 the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) was in limbo, and a nuclear counterforce doctrine had been adopted. Near the end of Carter's single term in office Vance stepped down as secretary of state, in part because Brzezinski's "muscular diplomacy" had come to dominate Carter's foreign policy. When Vance's successor, Edmund Muskie, took over, the State Department was reduced to implementing policies made by Brzezinski and his allies. For Carter, the rivalry for influence in the White House was concluded and the results, as Glad shows, were a mixed record and an uncertain presidential legacy.



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Betty Glad has written a thoroughly researched and richly detailed account of the Carter White House foreign policymaking process. Although there are many worthy previous scholarly works on Jimmy Carter's foreign policy and White House decision-making process, Glad's book brings new insights that she developed from years of careful examination of original documents, personal interviews, and correspondence with key players, among many other valuable sources. Her book is a model of solid academic research and analysis that will stand for years as the definitive work on this topic.

-- "Political Science Quarterly"

This is a whale of a book by a fine writer with an eye for social and psychological detail and an encyclopedia knowledge of everything that was thought and said and written by everyone involved in foreign policy formulation during every hour of the Carter administration.

-- "American Spectator"



About the Author



The late Betty Glad asOlin D. Johnston Professor of Political Science Emerita at the University of South Carolina and author of Jimmy Carter: In Search of the Great White House; Charles Evans Hughes and the Illusions of Innocence; and Key Pittman: The Tragedy of a Senate Insider. As editor or coeditor, her books include of The Psychological Dimensions of War and The Russian Transformation.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.22 Inches (H) x 6.5 Inches (W) x 1.22 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.63 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 414
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: United States
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Theme: 20th Century
Format: Hardcover
Author: Betty Glad
Language: English
Street Date: December 15, 2009
TCIN: 90817088
UPC: 9780801448157
Item Number (DPCI): 247-47-1560
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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