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

By: Language: eng Publication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021Edition: First Simon & Schuster paperback editionDescription: xv, 782 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781501125546
  • 1501125540
Other title:
  • Jimmy Carter, a life
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 002 E 873 C323A 2021
Contents:
|t Prologue : June 1979 -- |t Part one. Sources of strength: Daddy and hot ; |t The Carters and the Gordys ; |t Miss Julia ; |t Annapolis ; |t Rosalynn ; |t The Rickover way -- |t Part two. Georgia on his mind: The joiner ; |t "There's nothing I can do" ; |t Senator Carter ; |t The greasy pole ; |t Born again ; |t The code word campaign ; |t "He said whaaat?" ; |t Jungle Jimmy -- |t Part three. Dark horse: Jimmy who? ; |t The long march ; |t Front-runner ; |t Grits and Fritz ; |t "Lust in my heart" -- |t Part four. Outsider president: "Let's go!" ; |t The moral equivalent of war ; |t The steel magnolia ; |t His inner engineer ; |t "Bert, I'm proud of you" -- |t Part five. Peacemaker: Human rights ; |t Panama Canal squeaker ; |t Camp David ; |t Recognizing China -- |t Part six. Swamped: The fall of the Shah ; |t The "malaise" speech ; |t Touching bottom ; |t Ready for Teddy? ; America held hostage ; |t Reheating the Cold War ; |t Disaster at Desert One ; |t Are you better off? ; |t Inaugural drama -- |t Part seven. Global citizen: Exile ; |t The Carter Center ; |t Freelance Secretary of State ; |t Sunday school teacher.
Summary: “Drawing on fresh archival material and extensive access to Carter and his family, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Alter tells the epic story of a man of faith and his improbable journey from barefoot boy in the vicious Jim Crow South to global icon. We learn how Carter evolved from a timid child into an ambitious naval nuclear engineer and an indefatigable born-again governor; how as a president he failed politically amid the bad economy of the 1970s and the seizure of hostages in Iran but succeeded in engineering peace between Israel and Egypt, amassing a historic environmental record, moving the government from tokenism to diversity, setting a new global standard for human rights, and normalizing relations with China, among dozens of other unheralded achievements. After leaving office, Carter revolutionized the postpresidency with the bold global accomplishments of the Carter center”
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

|t Prologue : June 1979 -- |t Part one. Sources of strength: Daddy and hot ; |t The Carters and the Gordys ; |t Miss Julia ; |t Annapolis ; |t Rosalynn ; |t The Rickover way -- |t Part two. Georgia on his mind: The joiner ; |t "There's nothing I can do" ; |t Senator Carter ; |t The greasy pole ; |t Born again ; |t The code word campaign ; |t "He said whaaat?" ; |t Jungle Jimmy -- |t Part three. Dark horse: Jimmy who? ; |t The long march ; |t Front-runner ; |t Grits and Fritz ; |t "Lust in my heart" -- |t Part four. Outsider president: "Let's go!" ; |t The moral equivalent of war ; |t The steel magnolia ; |t His inner engineer ; |t "Bert, I'm proud of you" -- |t Part five. Peacemaker: Human rights ; |t Panama Canal squeaker ; |t Camp David ; |t Recognizing China -- |t Part six. Swamped: The fall of the Shah ; |t The "malaise" speech ; |t Touching bottom ; |t Ready for Teddy? ; America held hostage ; |t Reheating the Cold War ; |t Disaster at Desert One ; |t Are you better off? ; |t Inaugural drama -- |t Part seven. Global citizen: Exile ; |t The Carter Center ; |t Freelance Secretary of State ; |t Sunday school teacher.

“Drawing on fresh archival material and extensive access to Carter and his family, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Alter tells the epic story of a man of faith and his improbable journey from barefoot boy in the vicious Jim Crow South to global icon. We learn how Carter evolved from a timid child into an ambitious naval nuclear engineer and an indefatigable born-again governor; how as a president he failed politically amid the bad economy of the 1970s and the seizure of hostages in Iran but succeeded in engineering peace between Israel and Egypt, amassing a historic environmental record, moving the government from tokenism to diversity, setting a new global standard for human rights, and normalizing relations with China, among dozens of other unheralded achievements. After leaving office, Carter revolutionized the postpresidency with the bold global accomplishments of the Carter center”

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