A better title might have been "Carter -- the Unknown President" judging from reader reviews. Example: "According to Steven Hayward Jimmy Carter is a .. man with a mean streak a mile wide." Who knew?
I certainly didn't know this: "[Carter] was the guy who carried his garment bag on board Air Force 1 to try to appear like a normal guy when in fact the garment bag was empty."
Or this: "To win in Georgia, he sold himself as a Redneck and a segregationist and switched faces when it suited his ambitions for power." .. "Carter's campaign smears and race-baiting are by far the dirtiest campaigns of the 20th Century."
One reader titles his review "Machiavelli meets Mr. Rogers"
Hayward is author of The Age of Reagan, 1964-1980: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order.
Posted by Greg Ransom
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