The white house years is an epic biography and firstclass administrative history of our vastly underrated 39th president. Stuart eizenstat on president carters white house years. President carters energy, economic, and foreign policy. Native son, stuart eizenstat defends jimmy carters record. What holocaust restitution taught me about slavery reparations. Eizenstat, madeleine albright foreword, narrated by brian troxell, madeleine albright, stuart e.
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Cochairman of the europeanamerican business council eabc head of the international trade and finance division of the law firm of covington and burling. Undersecretary of commerce, undersecretary of state. Stuart eizenstat remembers the carter years differently. Stuart eizenstat, cochair of covingtons international trade and finance practice and special adviser to secretary of state john kerry on holocaust issues, is mentioned in this article regarding the 650,000 works of art looted from europe by the nazis during world war ii, stuart eizenstat, secretary of state john kerrys special adviser. He served as the united states ambassador to the european union from 1993 to 1996 and as the united states deputy secretary of the treasury from 1999 to 2001. Martins press, and thomas dunne books for providing me. Eizenstat analyzes carters triumphs and failures honestly so that we can understand how he dealt with some of the most intractable challenges any president has faced. For many years, and currently as of 2018 he has served as a partner and senior counsel at the washington, d. Eizenstat is an attorney, a former diplomat and was jimmy carter s chief domestic policy adviser for four years.
Often considered just a smiling but ineffectual southerner in a sweater. Carter may seem like a transitional figure between scandaltarred richard m. The book is large at 999 pages or 37 12 hours via audio format. Such carter accomplishments as camp david, the panama canal treaty, alaska lands and formal recognition of. Capturing the mind and heart of jimmy carter jewish journal. When carter left office in 1981, he had more than doubled the total amount of public land from roosevelt and every president since this book is an inside account of the carters years analyzed by his top domestic adviser, stuart eizenstat who also worked in the lbj, clinton and obamas administrations. He was directly involved in all domestic and economic decisions as well as in many foreign policy ones. Book stuart eizenstat for public speaking harry walker. Jimmy carter, the most successful oneterm president in. Stuart eizenstat was at jimmy carters side from his political rise in georgia through. Its a page tome by president carters chief white house domestic policy adviser, and so it should be not only unreliable but radically unreadable. It is a compelling read for all interested in this period of american history. Its a good book of a carter aides opinion and perception on the carter years. Well clearly ive been working on this book on and off for 40 years with the 5,000 pages of contemporary notes and 350 interviews so i didnt write it as an antitrump piece.
The white house years was published four months ago. President carter the white house years by stuart e. Stuart eizenstat was at jimmy carters side from his political rise in georgia through four years in the white house, where he. What i did not know till i read the new book, jimmy carter, the white house years, by his former top domestic policy adviser stuart eizenstat, is that israeli settlements also bedeviled the. Such carter accomplishments as camp david, the panama canal treaty, alaska lands and formal recognition of china pile up in a dramatic fashion. Drawing on 5,000 pages of his own detailed, often verbatim notes. Was jimmy carter the most underrated president in history. Stuart eizenstat was at jimmy carters side from his political rise in georgia through four years in the white house, where he served as chief domestic policy adviser. About the book the carter presidency is the most underappreciated of the last century.
He reveals the story behind the malaise speech and how the cabinet firing that followed nearly cost carter his vice president. Eizenstat has 11 books on goodreads with 2651 ratings. Famous for the legal pads he took to every meeting, he draws on more than 5,000 pages of notes and 350 interviews of all. It would be natural to regard stuart eizenstats new book, president carter.
The white house years, written by stuart eizenstat, the carter administrations chief domestic policy adviser, provides an indepth and inside look at the successes and failures of our nations 39th president. He previously worked as a junior aide to president johnson and as a research director for the humphrey presidential campaign. Jimmy carters chief domestic policy adviser tells all. Download and keep this book for free with a 30 day trial. Eizenstat utilized a lot of his own materials from his time in the carter white house. The best biographies of jimmy carter my journey through. Ambassador to the european union 19932001 former u. Stuart eizenstat was at jimmy carters side from his political rise in georgia.
Written by stuart eizenstat, then carters chief of domestic policy, the book has the immediacy of a participant who was in the room and close to the action, shaped by the contemporaneous notes. How global forces are impacting the jewish people, israel, and its relationship with the united states, 2012, etc. The white house years, were available to conference attendees. Jimmy carter s chief domestic policy adviser tells all. The white house years, a penetrating account of his time working for the nations 39th president, stuart eizenstat argues that its time to reassess jimmy carter. Stuart elliott stu eizenstat born january 15, 1943 is an american diplomat and attorney.
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