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Book Review


Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s. By Yanek Mieczkowski. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005. xii, 455 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8131-2349-6.)
This book is a welcome study of an unusual American president. Elected neither to the presidency nor to the vice presidency, Gerald R. Ford held both offices between 1973 and 1977. It was a period of exceptional policy stress arising from political and intellectual turmoil, as Yanek Mieczkowski shows. The author organizes his study around consideration of federal policy responses to exceptionally high inflation coupled with high unemployment; the rapid rise in oil prices in 1973 before, during, and after the Yom Kippur war; and continuing crises in the Middle East, in Southeast Asia, and in relations with the Soviet Union. . . .
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