I'm reading "President Carter: the White House Years" by Stuart Eizenstat, who was Carter's main policy adviser in the White House. So far about a quarter through. It's well written, although it could use closer editing--in a couple places there's near repetition of content/points just pages apart.
That's not really important. The big issue in the early days was energy, which Eizenstat claims Carter changed national energy policy drastically and permanently. I'm not convinced yet, but I did run across this graph from AEI, which shows a dramatic drop in energy imports spanning 10 years from Carter's term through the end of Reagan's.
I may post more later on Carter.
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