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In this remarkable and revealing tale, noted journalist Adam Clymer shows how the decision to give up this revered monument of the \"\"American century\"\" stirred emotions already rubbed raw by the loss of the Vietnam War and shaped American politics for years.Jimmy Carter made the Canal his first foreign policy priority and won the battle to ratify the Panama Canal treaties. But, Clymer reveals, the larger war was lost. The issue gave Ronald Reagan a slogan that kept his 1976 candidacy alive and positioned him to win in 1980, helped elect conservative senators who made a Republican majority, and fueled the overall growth of conservatism.In telling the story of America's reconsideration of the 1903 treaty that gave it control of the Canal \"\"in perpetuity,\"\" Clymer focuses on the perspectives of six key players: Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan, Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, political candidate Gordon Humphrey, and Terry Dolan of the National Conservative Political Action Committee. His narrative illuminates many aspects of American politics during the Ford and Carter years - especially regarding Senate elections - that have been largely overlooked. 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