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His very best : Jimmy Carter, a life / Jonathan Alter.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirsPublisher: Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: Large print editionDescription: 1149 pages, 16 unnumbered pages (large print) : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781432884529
  • 1432884522
Other title:
  • Jimmy Carter, a life
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Contents:
Prologue : June 1979 -- Part one. Sources of strength: Daddy and hot ; The Carters and the Gordys ; Miss Julia ; Annapolis ; Rosalynn ; The rickover way -- Part two. Georgia on his mind: The joiner ; "There's nothing I can do" ; Senator Carter ; The greasy pole ; Born again ; The code word campaign ; "He said whaaat?" ; Jungle Jimmy -- Part three. Dark horse: Jimmy who? ; The long march ; Front-runner ; Grits and Fritz ; "Lust in my heart" -- Part four. Outsider president: "Let's go!" ; The moral equivalent of war ; The steel magnolia ; His inner engineer ; "Bert, I'm proud of you" -- Part five. Peacemaker: Human rights ; Panama Canal squeaker ; Camp David ; Recognizing China -- Part six. Swamped: The fall of the Shah ; The "Malaise" speech ; Touching bottom ; Ready for Teddy? ; America held hostage ; Reheating the Cold War ; Disaster at Desert One ; Are you better off? ; Inaugural drama -- Part seven. Global citizen: Exile ; The Carter Center ; Freelance Secretary of State ; Sunday school teacher.
Summary: Alter tells the story Jimmy Carter, whose presidency put him at the center of major events in the 20th; and his efforts on conflict resolution and global health put him on the cutting edge of the challenges of the 21st. Drawing on fresh archival material and five years of extensive access to Carter and his entire family, Alter traces Carter from a timid, bookish child to an obscure, born-again governor whose 1976 campaign took him from zero percent to the presidency. A stubborn outsider who failed politically amid the bad economy of the 1970s, Carter amassed an historic environmental record, set a new global standard for human rights, and normalized relations with China.
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Large Print Book Large Print Book Main Library Large Print NonFiction CARTER, J. A466 Available 33111010492110
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Alter tells the story Jimmy Carter, whose presidency put him at the center of major events in the 20th; and his efforts on conflict resolution and global health put him on the cutting edge of the challenges of the 21st. Drawing on fresh archival material and five years of extensive access to Carter and his entire family, Alter traces Carter from a timid, bookish child to an obscure, born-again governor whose 1976 campaign took him from zero percent to the presidency. A stubborn outsider who failed politically amid the bad economy of the 1970s, Carter amassed an historic environmental record, set a new global standard for human rights, and normalized relations with China.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1017-1142).

Prologue : June 1979 -- Part one. Sources of strength: Daddy and hot ; The Carters and the Gordys ; Miss Julia ; Annapolis ; Rosalynn ; The rickover way -- Part two. Georgia on his mind: The joiner ; "There's nothing I can do" ; Senator Carter ; The greasy pole ; Born again ; The code word campaign ; "He said whaaat?" ; Jungle Jimmy -- Part three. Dark horse: Jimmy who? ; The long march ; Front-runner ; Grits and Fritz ; "Lust in my heart" -- Part four. Outsider president: "Let's go!" ; The moral equivalent of war ; The steel magnolia ; His inner engineer ; "Bert, I'm proud of you" -- Part five. Peacemaker: Human rights ; Panama Canal squeaker ; Camp David ; Recognizing China -- Part six. Swamped: The fall of the Shah ; The "Malaise" speech ; Touching bottom ; Ready for Teddy? ; America held hostage ; Reheating the Cold War ; Disaster at Desert One ; Are you better off? ; Inaugural drama -- Part seven. Global citizen: Exile ; The Carter Center ; Freelance Secretary of State ; Sunday school teacher.

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