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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherman, reflects on his full and happy life with pride, humor, and a few second thoughts. At ninety, Carter reflects on his public and private life with a frankness that is disarming. He adds detail and emotion about his youth in rural Georgia that he described in his earlier memoir An Hour Before Daylight. He writes about racism and the isolation of the...
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Language
English
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"All his life, President Jimmy Carter has been a courageous exemplar of faith. Now he shares the lessons he learned. He writes, "The issue of faith arises in almost every area of human existence, so it is important to understand its multiple meanings. In this book, my primary goal is to explore the broader meaning of faith, its far-reaching effect on our lives, and its relationship to past, present, and future events in America and around the world....
4) Good company
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Home Depot co-founder and owner of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons relates his experiences with revitalizing troubled organizations and outlines a practical approach to a values-based business that utilizes the cooperative potential of purpose and profit.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
In a sequel to An Hour Before Daylight, the former president continues his account of his early boyhood years, recalling with fondness the Christmas holidays of his youth and later years and recreating the simplicity of community and celebration with friends and family.
Author
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
Includes 52 shortened versions of Sunday School classes taught by the former president during the past twenty years at a variety of Baptist Churches, including the Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia. Each lesson revolves around a particular Biblical passage and many include personal anecdotes.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©2003.
Language
English
Description
With this intricately detailed novel of the American South and the Revolutionary War, President Carter becomes our first chief executive, past or present, to publish a work of fiction. By concentrating on Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas from 1763 to 1783, Carter takes a fresh look at this crucial historical period, giving life and originality to a story usually told from the viewpoint of the northern colonies. There's a large cast of characters,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The world's discrimination and violence against women and girls is the most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: This is President Jimmy Carter's call to action. President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of leaders of all faiths. His urgent report covers a system of discrimination that extends to every nation. Women are deprived of equal opportunity in wealthier nations and "owned" by men in...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Who Is Jimmy Carter? details the entire life of Jimmy Carter, beginning with his 1924 birth in Plains, Georgia. Readers will learn about his life as a peanut farmer, a Sunday school teacher, a president, a Nobel Prize winner, and more.
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Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Jimmy Carter served as the 39th US president from 1977 to 1981. In 2002 he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Read about Carter's journey from a peanut farm in Georgia to the White House"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"Jimmy Carter left the White House in January 1981, defeated in his bid for reelection and rejected by the American public - but hardly broken. In fact, as Douglas Brinkley's book reveals, he attacked the next phase of his life more determined than ever, outside the scrutinized and politicized Oval Office, to complete a mission to pursue peace in embattled areas throughout the world, from Bosnia to Haiti." "Historian Douglas Brinkley has had unique...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"From one of America's most respected journalists and modern historians comes the first full-length biography of Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States and Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian. Jonathan Alter tells the epic story of an enigmatic man of faith and his improbable journey from barefoot boy to global icon. Alter paints an intimate and surprising portrait of the only president since Thomas Jefferson who can fairly be called a...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Four decades after Ronald Reagan's landslide win in 1980, Jimmy Carter's one-term presidency is often labeled a failure; indeed, many Americans view Carter as the only ex-president to have used the White House as a stepping-stone to greater achievements. But in retrospect the Carter political odyssey is a rich and human story, marked by both formidable accomplishments and painful political adversity. In this deeply researched, brilliantly written...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The Carter presidency is the most underappreciated of the last century. Often considered just a smiling but ineffectual Southerner in a sweater, Jimmy Carter deserves to be remembered instead as a risk taker who did what he felt was right, not what would be politically expedient, whose legacy led to presidential successes long after his term, and whose list of lasting achievements reshaped the country. Stuart Eizenstat saw everything firsthand. As...
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