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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Cast of Characters | |
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| INTRODUCTION: Jimmy Carter and an Age of Diminished Expectations | |
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| The 1970s: A Decade of Tumult and Transformation | |
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| Americans Contemplate the Consequences of Changed Circumstances | |
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| A Presidency and a Nation in Crisis | |
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| Patrick Caddell and the American Spiritual Crisis | |
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| Conflicting Advice for a President | |
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| The President Addresses the Nation | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Documents | |
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| Carter Declares the Energy Crisis the "Moral Equivalent of War" | |
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| Jimmy Carter, The Energy Problem, April 18, 1977 | |
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| David Stockman, The Wrong War? The Case against a National Energy Policy, Fall 1978 | |
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| Tom Morganthau and Others, The Energy Plague, July 2, 1979 | |
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| National Review, Carter on the Titanic: Editorial, July 27, 1979 | |
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| Religion, Materialism, and Leadership: Traditions on Which Carter Drew | |
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| Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835 and 1840 | |
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| Jimmy Carter, Handwritten Notes on Conversation with Daniel Bell at White House, May 30, 1979 | |
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| Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism, 1979 | |
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| Robert Bellah, Human Conditions for a Good Society, March 25,1979 | |
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| Debates within the Administration | |
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| Stuart Eizenstat, Memo to the President, June 28, 1979 | |
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| Esther Peterson, Energy Conservation Program: Memo to the President, June 28, 1979 | |
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| Achsah Nesmith, Walter Shapiro, and Gordon Stewart, Energy Speech: Memo to Gerald Rafshoon and Hendrik Hertzberg, June 29, 1979 | |
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| Hamilton Jordan, Memo to the President, July 3, 1979 | |
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| Walter Mondale, Energy Speech: Memo to the President, July 3, 1979 | |
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| Marshall Loeb, How to Counter OPEC, July 9, 1979 | |
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| Gerald Rafshoon, Memo to the President, July 10, 1979 | |
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| Preparation and Delivery of July 15, 1979, Speech | |
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| Jimmy Carter, Handwritten Notes in Preparation for Speech, July 11, 1979 | |
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| The Daily Diary of President Jimmy Carter, July 15, 1979 | |
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| Jimmy Carter, Energy and National Goals, July 15, 1979 | |
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| Reactions to the Speech | |
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| The Press | |
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| Conservatives | |
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| The Wall Street Journal, The Real Jimmy Carter: Editorial, July 17, 1979 | |
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| National Review, Gantry on Energy: Editorial, August 3, 1979 | |
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| Left | |
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| Progressive, Carter's Crisis -- and Ours: Comment, September 1979 | |
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| Labor | |
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| AFL-CIO Federationist, Coming to Grips with the Energy Crisis, August 1979 | |
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| Environmentalists | |
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| Theodore A. Snyder, Jr., Our Energy Future -- A Time to Choose: Editorial, September/October 1979 | |
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| Ethnic and Religious Groups | |
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| Jewish Week, Two Cheers for a Start: Editorial, July 15, 1979 | |
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| America, Energy Sermon: Editorial, July 28, 1979 | |
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| Christian Index, Christians Should Lead in Conservation: Editorial, July 26, 1979 | |
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| Letters from Citizens | |
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| Hugh Carter, President's Messages of 7/15/79 and 7/16/79, July 17, 1979 | |
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| Bell, Bellah, and Lasch | |
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| Robert Bellah, A Night at Camp David, July 27, 1979 | |
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| Christopher Lasch, Letter to Patrick Caddell, July 18, 1979 | |
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| Political Opposition | |
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| Edward M. Kennedy, Speech, November 7, 1979 | |
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| Ronald Reagan, A Vision for America, November 3, 1980 | |
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| Looking Back | |
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| Dick Cheney, Speech, April 30, 2001 | |
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| Ralph Nader, Dick Cheney and Conservation, May 1, 2001 | |
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| Jimmy Carter, Misinformation and Scare Tactics, May 17, 2001 | |
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| Thomas L. Friedman, A Failure to Imagine, May 19, 2002 | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| A Chronology of Events Surrounding the Energy Crisis of the 1970s (1973���1981 | |