The America That Reagan Built
by J. David Woodard · 15 Mar 2006
Reagan understood is that the American people craved something bigger in their history and national memory than Gerald Ford’s evacuation of Saigon or Jimmy Carter’s malaise speech. When the fifty-six Americans were held for ransom by Khomeini’s Iran, the press said it was ‘‘America held hostage.’’ By contrast the
Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization
by Harold James · 15 Jan 2023 · 469pp · 137,880 words
their honest views. Then he presented the outcome in a televised address on July 15: it became known as the “crisis of confidence” speech, or also as the “malaise” speech (though Carter did not use that word). He started with the brutal criticism: “This from a southern governor: ‘Mr. President, you are not leading
Keeping at It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government
by Paul Volcker and Christine Harper · 30 Oct 2018 · 363pp · 98,024 words
becomes New York Federal Reserve Bank president. December 27, 1977 President Carter nominates G. William Miller to replace Arthur Burns at Fed. July 15, 1979 Carter’s “malaise” speech. July 19, 1979 Carter names Miller to replace Michael Blumenthal as Treasury secretary. August 6, 1979 Volcker replaces Miller at Fed; Miller becomes Treasury
More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy
by Philip Coggan · 6 Feb 2020 · 524pp · 155,947 words
/history.environmental.movement/index.html 85. Donella Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers and William W. Behrens III, The Limits to Growth 86. “Examining Carter’s ‘Malaise Speech’, 30 years later”, NPR, July 12th 2009, https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106508243 Chapter 13 – Central banks: money and technocrats 1
Shutdown: How COVID Shook the World's Economy
by Adam Tooze · 15 Nov 2021 · 561pp · 138,158 words
/issue-areas/enforcement/section-301-investigations/section-301-china/investigation. 72. K. Mattson, “What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?”: Jimmy Carter, America’s “Malaise,” and the Speech That Should Have Changed the Country (Bloomsbury USA, 2010). 73. D. Kurtzleben, “Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Releases Green New Deal Outline,” All Things
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
by Daniel Yergin · 23 Dec 2008 · 1,445pp · 469,426 words
propose 5 million barrels per day, but had been talked out of it. Though he did not use the word, his address became known as Carter's "malaise" speech. Carter also wanted to make changes in his own Cabinet, and in particular, to force the resignations of two of its members, Treasury Secretary
A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
by Bruce Cannon Gibney · 7 Mar 2017 · 526pp · 160,601 words
immediate was required, and here is where Waterloo came to the White House, in the form of a 1979 address known as the Malaise Speech. Preparing for reelection, Jimmy Carter decided to be frank with the American people about the problems he saw, the last effort of a decent man to cajole the
The Theft of a Decade: How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials' Economic Future
by Joseph C. Sternberg · 13 May 2019 · 336pp · 95,773 words
’ own parents. By the time the Boomers were young adults, America was suffering through bouts of stagflation, urban riots, gas lines, and President Jimmy Carter’s infamous “malaise” speech. That doesn’t let the Boomers off the hook for their bad decisions over the past generation, but it offers some important context. Many
The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.
by William D. Cohan · 25 Dec 2015 · 1,009pp · 329,520 words
that was unable to count its blessings and lost sight of its values." Felix made these comments almost six months to the day before Carter's infamous "malaise" speech to the American people. Felix gave another interview, also in his "modest, somewhat cluttered office" in Rockefeller Center, in February 1979 to W, the
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress--And How to Bring It Back
by Marc J Dunkelman · 17 Feb 2025 · 454pp · 134,799 words
decaying through the 1970s—with New York, in particular, edging toward bankruptcy. In the years that preceded what would be (mis)remembered as Jimmy Carter’s “malaise” speech, the public shared a notion that the country, led by tired institutions, was in decline.84 Even the great exponents of the Hamiltonian New Deal
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Zeitz, Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson’s White House (New York: Viking, 2018), 312. 84. David French, “The Wisdom and Prophecy of Jimmy Carter’s ‘Malaise’ Speech,” New York Times, February 23, 2023. 85. Schulman, The Seventies, 47–48. 86. Kazin, What It Took to Win, 257–263. The TVA’s
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
by Jeff Madrick · 11 Jun 2012 · 840pp · 202,245 words
The Intelligent Investor (Collins Business Essentials)
by Benjamin Graham and Jason Zweig · 1 Jan 1949 · 670pp · 194,502 words