The Real Jimmy Carter (Chapter One)

Here's the book review from American Compass:


It’s common wisdom that whatever you think of Jimmy Carter’s presidency, he is a fine ex-president—generous, judicious, and helpful. Richard Nixon put it pungently: “While Ford is playing golf, which he should do if that’s his idea of retirement, Carter is out there banging nails into houses for the poor.” Not so fast! says Steve Hayward. Yes, Carter’s connection with Habitat for Humanity is for real, and he has done good work in some of his overseas election monitoring. But toward his successors he is probably the most vicious ex-President in our history. And look at the foreign leaders he has been most anxious to cultivate: Hafez al-Assad, Yasir Arafat, ethnic cleanser Radovan Karadzic, Kim Il Sung, Fidel Castro. Hayward gives a lively account of Carter’s life pre-1980 on the way to showing how the “plain man from Plains” became so popular “among the nations that hate the United States the most.”