Synopsis

The final installment of the biography of Jimmy Carter, titled "Hostage," chronicles his presidency and the years that followed. In 1977, Carter proclaimed human rights would be "a basic tenet of our foreign policy," yet the unfolding events in Iran proved overwhelming. Domestic economic struggles fueled a pervasive sense of "malaise," and even the 1978 Camp David accords failed to lift his approval ratings. The hostage crisis then descended, but in Plains, Carter and Rosalynn found strength to