Author Program: Jay Hakes- Energy Crises: Nixon, Ford, Carter and Hard Choices in the 1970s
Channel: Jimmy Carter Presidential Library
Date: 2021-04-07

The 1970s were a decade of historic American energy crises—major interruptions in oil supplies from the Middle East, the country’s most dangerous nuclear accident, and chronic shortages of natural gas. In "Energy Crises," Jay Hakes brings his expertise in energy and presidential history to bear on the questions of why these crises occurred, how different choices might have prevented or ameliorated them, and what they have meant for the half-century since—and likely the half-century ahead.

Drawing on previously unavailable and inaccessible records, Hakes deftly intertwines the domestic and international aspects of the long-misunderstood fuel shortages that still affect our lives today. 




April 5, 2021