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The Carter Presidency: Policy Choices in the Post-New Deal Era

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I read this book 4 years ago or so when reading different presidential economic policies. I agree with past reviewers that there is some repetition but it is not that bad. The good does a good job analyzing the Carter presidency's economic policies from a New Deal Keynesian perspective. It criticizes with well thought out points and procedures. If you are interested in economic policy of Carter, or a Keynesian critique of American policy, you will enjoy this book.

Policy Choices in the Post-New Deal Era is a decent albeit short discourse on the Carter presidency. While the fanatics on the far right consider him a failure and Reagan the Holy Trinity, reality paints a different picture. After Nixon's paranoid wreckage of the Constitution and the economy due to the Vietnam War, resulting in the gas crisis, unemployment, recessions and stagflation, Carter stepped into a situation not much better than Obama faces after succeeding the worst president in the history of America. Carter was a president of integrity, something sorely lacking in all of the post presidencies, including the corporate spokesman with a charge card Ronald Reagen, whose policies instigated what bears fruit now. One of Reagan's first orders as president was to remove the solar panels Carter had placed on the White House. This reveals more significance now that man-made global warming is undisputed except for those dwellers from the mythical town of Mayberry.