The OutlierThe Outlier

"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. A definitive account of an enigmatic presidency-both as it really happened and as it is remembered in the American consciousness, this is a profound, clear-eyed evaluation of a leader whose legacy has been deeply misunderstood." --Book jacket.