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This book reveals a man who has been given a dangerously free pass by historians, but who in reality is not only a failed ex-president, but as vindictive as he is egotitical, and a self-righteous busybody who leaves diaster in his wake.


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Jimmy Carter: America's best ex-president? Only if you're not bothered by the resurgence of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism (which started on his watch), the shamefaced foreign policy of Bill Clinton and John Kerry (ditto), and think that ex-presidents should travel the world coddling dictators and bad-mouthing America à la Jesse Jackson. Jimmy Carter has been given a free ride from the liberal media, liberal historians, and even the American people, who excuse his political delinquencies and disasters on the grounds that he is a "good" man. But as bank robber Willie Sutton said of Carter: "I've never seen a bigger confidence man in my life, and I've been around some of the best in the business." It's time to set the record straight. Finally, an honest historian-Steven F. Hayward, author of The Age of Reagan-demolishes the myth of "Saint" Jimmy and exposes how he created today's leftist Democratic party of John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. Jimmy Carter's laundry list of failures aren't just accidents of history: They're rooted in Carter's deeply flawed character and ideology-a smugly pious arrogance matched with a profound distrust of America. The Real Jimmy Carter reveals: • Carter as meddling ex-president: Why a Time magazine columnist wrote that some of Carter's "Lone Ranger work has taken him dangerously close to the neighborhood of what we used to call treason" • How Carter befriended North Korea during the Clinton administration, appeasing the communist regime and giving it cover for its nuclear weapons program • How Carter made direct contacts with Soviet officials to try to subvert President Reagan's anti-communist policies • The shocking extent of Carter's clandestine efforts to sabotage the first Gulf War in 1990 and how he used Gulf War II to publicly question the Christian faith of America's commander in chief • How Carter befriended Yasir Arafat-making himself an enemy of Israel • Carter as politician: a vicious campaigner-and even race-baiter • The Carter White House during the disasters of the Sandinista takeover of Nicaragua, the energy crisis and stagflation, the Iranian revolution and hostage crisis, and the invasion of Afghanistan • How Carter, the failed president, remade himself as Carter the humanitarian and freelance foreign policy critic of America • How a Nobel official inadvertently revealed that Carter's Nobel Prize was actually meant as a slap at America The Real Jimmy Carter is a shocker, showing why the peanut president should never have left his farm.

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  • Hardcover: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc. (May 25, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0895260905
  • ISBN-13: 978-0895260901
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (114 customer reviews)
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79 of 110 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Please, what I notice about some is that they DON'T read, May 12, 2004
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...the book, but attack the messenger. For those who have problems with the book, please stick to facts, not `Flying Monkeys'.

The thing I notice a lot is that people who obviously don't read the book but dislike the premise of the author, love writing negative reviews.

I used to really like Jimmy, but when he goes to Cuba and slobbers on Fidel, I started rethinking the president whom I always considered `nice, but incompetent'.

In retrospect, I think Jimmy is what changed me as a lifelong Democrat to start seeing the other side of the argument. Certainly if he is one of our best presidents, we need to reconsider the party's stand.

His similarities to Kerry, who has said he might appoint JC to a State Department level position, are sobering.

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44 of 61 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The Truth We Knew In Print, May 12, 2007
Having been directly affected by Mr. Jimmy Carter as President I think that Steven Hayward has done a great job of letting this country know what to expect when the protege's of Mr. Carter next sit in the White House and have control of Congress.

I serve (quite naively) in Mr. Carter's Army (1976-1980) and saw his disdain for the military in action. When provoked in Korea only 17 of our 55 tanks could move because we had no parts. We froze in the cold temperatures of March because our Commander declared it was spring so the heating oil was siphoned out of our heaters.

We can thank Mr. Carter for the rise of radical Islam with his lack of support for The Shah of Iran. And for those who think he was bad, Kohmeini killed more people in the first year of the Islamic Revolution than the Shah had in 25 years. The war on Terror? It started with Jimmy Carter.

When Saddam invaded Kuwait, Carter said the solution was for Israel to give up the West Bank and that would be it. When Kim Il Sun in North Korea wanted to move his nuclear development forward Carter, with the support of Al Gore and Clinton gave him light water for development in their aggrements. Carter said the PLO was like the United Way taking care of the people. Giving away the Panama Canal was Carter's way of apologizing to Panama, what did they need an apology for?

The only thing missing in this book is Carter's impact on the Federal Judiciary. His activist judges took God out of schools, turned criminals out to the streets, and changed our culture.

His Carter Center is funded largely by Arab money of questionable origins. His objective there is to try to carry on the policies that ruined his presidency. Why? Because Jimmy Carter wants to be America's Ghandi. Its all about Jimmy.... nothing more.

A good read for those who want to know why the Clintons and the next generation of Democrats are who they are, its Jimmy Carter.
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39 of 54 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars "Smug pious arrogance" , May 17, 2007
Hayward gives a detailed account of Carter's failures as President, and perhaps even more tellingly, as ex-President.
One must always be wary of preachers of morality, and Carter's 'smug pious arrogance' is especially irritating when one considers the large donations he has pocketed from the Saudis while peddling and supporting their ideas on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Carter has attacked American policy and Presidents with indiscretion and unfairness.
This is a thoroughly researched and largely convincing work.
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1.0 out of 5 stars this is ridiculous.
Alright, this is completely ridiculous. Calling Jimmy Carter our "worst ex-president" is so far off base, I don't even know where to start. Read more
Published 19 days ago by G. K. RN

1.0 out of 5 stars Glaring errors and lies
I will not waste my energy not one moment more than needed. As a request to a friend, I read his copy. Read more
Published 1 month ago by SBJ400

5.0 out of 5 stars Carter's Watch
A good detailing of probaby the most failed President in modern political memory. The nadir of modern liberalism, he boldly led this country into a downward spiral despite what... Read more
Published 1 month ago by L. Cabos

3.0 out of 5 stars A polemic, but not a worthless one
This book was obviously meant to be anti-Carter, based on the subtitle and the short length (at less than 250 pages before the index, I was disappointed), but it seems to be... Read more
Published 7 months ago by J. Knape

1.0 out of 5 stars Jackass Jimmy exposed
This book exposes Carter for the man he is--a naive, idiotic moron. Instead of writing books and commenting on foreign policy on TV, Carter should be shucking goobers and... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Dr. Ron

1.0 out of 5 stars misrepresentation of facts
This book does not give any type of balance to the topic. It gives facts out of context and some complete misrepresentations. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Jamie A. Volkmer

1.0 out of 5 stars A disgraceful smear job financed by the Israel lobby
A poorly written rush job by people whose entrenched interests have been threatened by Jimmy Carter's humanitarian work. Read more
Published 11 months ago by A. Bhattacharya

1.0 out of 5 stars Trash
I saw this book and had to buy it - knowing full well that it would be a biased, unsubstantiated, low budget scribe. I was right! Read more
Published 11 months ago by Catholic for Life

3.0 out of 5 stars The author's heart is in the right place, it is that this book doesn't stick so well
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