“Bird skillfully paints Carter as a mix of genuine idealism and “clear-eyed ruthlessness” behind a folksy facade, and shrewdly analyzes the forces of stagflation, deindustrialization, and U.S. imperial decline—capped by the Iran hostage crisis—that hobbled him. The result is a lucid, penetrating portrait that should spur reconsideration of Carter’s much-maligned presidency.”
2017-01-12
Kai Bird is the new Executive Director for CUNY Graduate Center's Leon Levy Biography Center
2015-08-27
Crown books (Random House) has signed Kai Bird to write a biography of President Jimmy Carter's White House years.