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The Real Jimmy Carter: How Our Worst Ex-President Undermines American Foreign Policy, Coddles Dictators and Created the Party of Clinton and Kerry | 
 enlarge | Author: Steven F. Hayward
Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc.
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Rating:  107 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 0895260905
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.926092
EAN: 9780895260901
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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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The author's heart is in the right place, it is that this book doesn't stick so well September 16, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I hate Jimmy Carter. I despise him for helping the Iranian Mullahs overthrow the western government of the Shah in 1979. I want President Carter to be tried in a fair court for his crimes against humanity. For his ties with bad people and awful things he has done since 1978. BUT I've to say this book is not factual, at least when it comes to Iran. Names are pronounced/written mistakenly. Dates and locations of events are wrong and there were errors I couldn't ignore so I decided to write this review. I am pretty sure the author's heart is in the right place and like him and other sane Conservatives, I don't like Carter and likes of him in the DemoNRatic party. This book is not what I really imagined it to be. I wish I could only give it 2.5 stars out of 5 but what the heck, there is no option like that. So I give it 3 stars.
 well referenced and revealing July 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of the most interesting books I have read on Jimmy Carter. This book goes beyond the actions he took in foreign policy which cost United State loosing ground in the Middle East.
 ANTI-AMERICAN HATE WRITING; TAKES USA INTO DEEPER, DEEPER and ZERO CREDIBILITY IMAGE HOLE,WHILE, PRES.CARTER IS SAVING USA IMAGE July 17, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Books like this one are upsetting to read because you feel like you just wasted time and money. The only value of this book is to make readers and Americans aware of who "does not!" have America's best interest at heart - like the 5 star choir and author of this despicable garbage. President Jimmy Carter DOES have America's interest at heart, and 99.9999% of Americans know this, as well as, 99.999% of the rest of the world! This can be said of President Carter with 100% confidence. This absurd book is a disgrace and liability to America's image and safety - Don't bother. View Jimmy Carter's : Man From Plains,(on DVD - superbly done!) and be deeply moved and motivated to add something better to the world like President Jimmy Carter does everyday. Read his book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, and see for yourself how objective and calmy truthful President Carter is. Many, many thought Carter was too polite in Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, but that's just the way this true "World Hero" is, and what makes him such an incredible Humanist. Don't forget another American hero: Rachel Corrie.
The Real Jimmy Carter April 23, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Whenever I read a conservative book, I like to put on my liberal hat (yes, I do have one) and see how well the author can convince me. So the question for Steven F Hayward in The Real Jimmy Carter was: could he convince me, a diehard hemophiliac liberal Jimmy Carter lover that the object of my admiration is detrimental to my country?
The answer, sadly, was not really. While Hayward's book is easy to read, not terribly long, and a well-done work, he offers little of which my liberal hat wouldn't already be aware. I already knew that Carter wasn't a great president, but that he tried really hard (and as a liberal, that's what matters to me). The fact that Carter's good friends with Yasser Arafat is perfectly fine in my book. When Hayward criticizes Carter's criticizing the Bush administration, I see that as Carter just doing his job. Hayward said almost nothing to dissuade me from my adoration of St. Jimmy.
However, when I took off my liberal hat and put on my conservative one, Hayward did a great job. Despite his inability to persuade my inner liberal, he really does marshal good evidence and arguments in his defense (and that shouldn't count against him; what do such things matter to a liberal?). He cites unflattering characterizations of Carter by his White House and campaign staffers, plus contemporary news accounts of Carter's meddling with current affairs, both of which are excellent insights into Carter. These debunk the perception of Carter as a righteous saint and show him instead to be a self-righteous loser.
So on the conservative end of things, Hayward hits a home run. On the liberal end, he walks to first. Still, The Real Jimmy Carter isn't a bad read, if you're already convinced that Carter was an awful president and are just looking for some affirmation. Or if your history prof happens to assign it.
The true carter, well done. March 8, 2008
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
This anti-Semitic tirade is more proof that not only is carter is a moron and a hypocrite, he is outside the relm of the real world. While he idolizes terrorists like arafat, pol pot, castro, kadaffi, mao, kim il song, kim jong il, the ayatollah who destroyed iran and then began attacking the world he does not support Israel's tiny little democracy a state by the way that treats arabs better than they are treated in muslim countries..
Heres some of the truth about gaza!After the 1948 Arab invasion of Israel failed, Egypt refused to allow a Palestinian state orr self-determination in Gaza. Egypt used Gaza as a base for fedayeen raids on Israel, while ruling with an iron fist, preventing Palestinians from entering egypt. Egypt's main goal was to use its population as cannon fodder against Israel.
Israel's conquest of the Sinai in the 1967 Six-Day War forced a change in tactics but not the goal. When Egypt took back the Sinai in 1982, it REFUSED TO TAKE BACK GAZA (as Israel requested). As with every issue during the Camp David negotiations Carter sided with Egypt.
Throughout the 1980's and 1990's Egypt allowed smuggling of weapons into Gaza, while continuing to clamp down on individual Palestinians. Its overriding goal remained to use Gaza as a means to delegitimize Israel, while talking publicly of "humanitarian"needs.
The smashing of the border wall with Egypt may finally force Egypt to take some responsibility for its policies. The smashing of the border wall with Egypt may finally force Egypt to take some responsibility for its policies. Surely Gaza can get its supplys from Egypt? Why should Israel have the responsibility of providing ALL services (which it still does) to a territory ruled by a group sworn to Israel's destruction, and from which it is attacked several times daily? (1 killed in Dimona) Egypt would be given leeway in dealing with Hamas that the Arab world will not allow to Israel.
Unfortunately there is little likelihood that Egypt will change and take forward-looking policies. Had Egypt welcomed and absorbed Arab refugees as Israel did with all the Jewish refugees from Arab countries, the situation in Gaza and elsewhere could have been far better.
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