"What the heck are you up to, Mr. President?"
Subtitle: Jimmy Carter, America's "malaise," and the speech that should have changed the country
By: Kevin Mattson.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: New York; Bloomsbury
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bloomsbury
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781596915213
Subjects: Carter, Jimmy, -- 1924- -- Oratory; Carter, Jimmy, -- 1924- -- Political and social views; Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Energy policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects -- United States; National characteristics, American; United States -- Politics and government -- 1977-1981
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: "What the heck are you up to, Mr. President?"; title: Diagnosing the nation's heart of glass (April 1979); title: Making friends and enemies in a time of crisis (May 1979); title: "The worst of times" (June 1979); title: "One of my best" (July 1979); title: The speech becomes a "turning point" to the end (July 1979 to January 1981); title: Epilogue : In dreams there begin no responsibilities.