The Outlier 美国前总统吉米卡特传
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作者Kai Bird
出版社Crown
ISBN9780451495242
出版时间2000-01
装帧平装
定价122元
货号YB-67038
上书时间2024-03-07
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Four decades after Ronald Reagan’s landslide win in 1980, Jimmy Carter’s one-term presidency is often labeled a failure; indeed, many Americans view Carter as the only ex-president to have used the White House as a stepping-stone to greater achievements. But in retrospect the Carter political odyssey is a rich and human story, marked by both formidable accomplishments and painful political adversity. In this deeply researched, brilliantly written account,?Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer?Kai Bird expertly unfolds the Carter saga as a tragic tipping point in American history. As president, Carter was not merely an outsider; he was?an outlier. He was the only president in a century to grow up in the heart of the Deep South, and his born-again Christianity made him the most openly religious president in memory. This outlier brought to the White House a rare mix of humility, candor,?and unnerving self-confidence that neither Washington nor America was ready to embrace. Decades before today’s public reckoning with the vast gulf between America’s ethos and its actions, Carter looked out on a nation torn by race and demoralized by Watergate and Vietnam and prescribed a radical self-examination from which voters recoiled. The cost of his unshakable belief in doing the right thing would be?losing his re-election bid—and witnessing?the ascendance of Reagan. In these remarkable pages, Bird?traces the arc of Carter’s administration, from his aggressive domestic agenda to his controversial foreign policy record, taking readers inside the Oval Office and through Carter’s battles with both a political establishment and a Washington press corps that proved as adversarial as any foreign power. Bird shows how issues still hotly debated today—from national health care to growing inequality and racism to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—burned at the heart of Carter’s America, and consumed a president who found a moral duty in solving them. Drawing on interviews with Carter and members of his administration and recently declassified documents, Bird delivers a profound, clear-eyed evaluation of a leader whose legacy has been deeply misunderstood. The Outlier is the definitive account of an enigmatic presidency—both as it really happened and as it is remembered in the American consciousness. 1980 年罗纳德·里根 (Ronald Reagan) 取得压倒性胜利四十年后，吉米·卡特 (Jimmy Carter) 的一届总统任期常常被贴上失败的标签。事实上，许多美国人认为卡特是唯一一位将白宫作为取得更大成就的垫脚石的前总统。但回想起来，卡特的政治冒险是一个丰富而人性化的故事，以令人惊叹的成就和痛苦的政治逆境为标志。在这部经过深入研究、文笔优美的记述中，普利策奖得主传记作家凯·伯德巧妙地展现了卡特传奇故事，将其视为美国历史上的一个悲剧转折点。作为总统，卡特不仅是一个局外人，而且是一个局外人。他是一个异类。他是一个世纪以来唯一一位在南方腹地长大的总统，他重生的基督教信仰使他成为记忆中最公开的宗教总统。这个异类给白宫带来了一种罕见的谦逊、坦率和令人不安的自信，华盛顿和美国都没有准备好接受这些。在今天公开审视美国的精神与行动之间的巨大鸿沟之前的几十年，卡特看到了一个饱受种族蹂躏、因水门事件和越南事件而士气低落的国家，并提出了一项激进的自省，但选民却对此感到退缩。他坚定不移地做正确事的信念的代价是失去连任，并目睹里根的崛起。在这些精彩的篇章中，伯德追溯了卡特政府的发展历程，从激进的国内议程到颇具争议的外交政策记录，带领读者走进椭圆形办公室，了解卡特与政治建制派和华盛顿记者团的斗争，这些斗争被证明是敌对的任何外国势力。伯德展示了当今仍在激烈争论的问题——从国家医疗保健到日益严重的不平等和种族主义，再到以色列-巴勒斯坦冲突——如何在卡特的美国核心中燃烧，并消耗了一位发现解决这些问题的道义责任的总统。根据对卡特及其政府成员的采访以及最近解密的文件，伯德对一位其遗产被深深误解的领导人做出了深刻、清晰的评价。 《离群者》是对一位神秘总统任期的权威描述——无论是真实发生的事情，还是美国意识中对它的记忆。
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