The Carter presidency : policy choices in the post-New Deal era / edited by Gary M. Fink and Hugh Davis Graham.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-298) and index.

1. Jimmy Carter and the Post-New Deal Presidency / William E. Leuchtenburg -- 2. The Quest for National Goals, 1957-81 / Robert H. Zieger -- 3. Slouching toward the Supply Side: Jimmy Carter and the New American Political Economy / Bruce J. Schulman -- 4. The Locomotive Loses Power: The Trade and Industrial Policies of Jimmy Carter / Judith Stein -- 5. Jimmy Carter and the End of the Politics of Productivity / Melvyn Dubofsky -- 6. Jimmy Carter and Welfare Reform / James T. Patterson -- 7. Carter's Urban Policy Crisis / Thomas J. Sugrue -- 8. An Age of Limits: Jimmy Carter and the Quest for a National Energy Policy / John C. Barrow -- 9. Environmental Policy during the Carter Presidency / Jeffrey K. Stine -- 10. Civil Rights Policy in the Carter Presidency / Hugh Davis Graham -- 11. Feminism, Public Policy, and the Carter Administration / Susan M. Hartmann -- 12. Placing Jimmy Carter's Foreign Policy / William Stueck -- 13. The Agenda Continued: Jimmy Carter's Postpresidency / John Whiteclay Chambers II -- Bibliographic Essay / Suzanne Litke.

In this book, more than a dozen eminent scholars provide a balanced overview of key elements of Carter's presidency, examining the significance of his administration within the context of evolving American policy choices after World War II. They seek not only to understand the troubled Carter presidency but also to identify the changes that precipitated and accompanied the demise of the New Deal order." "Grounded on research conducted at the Carter Library, The Carter Presidency is an incisive reassessment of an isolated Democratic administration from the vantage point of twenty years. It is a milestone in the historical appraisal of that administration, inviting us to take a new look at Jimmy Carter and see what his presidency represented for a dramatically changing America.