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An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood
An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood
by Jimmy Carter
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In An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength, re-creates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever changed it and the country. Carter writes about the... (read more)

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Rosalynn Carter: Equal Partner in the White House (Modern First Ladies)
Rosalynn Carter: Equal Partner in the White House (Modern First Ladies)
by Scott Kaufman
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Before Hillary, there was Rosalynn. Rosalynn Carter--the most politically active first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt--was sometimes called the second most powerful person in the United States. Even when her husband Jimmy Carter's approval ratings sank to... (read more)

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Jimmy Carter, Public Opinion, and the Search for Values, 1977-1981
Jimmy Carter, Public Opinion, and the Search for Values, 1977-1981
by Gregory Paul Domin
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"Carter, Public Opinion, and the Search for Values, 1977-1981, reveals that, at times during his term, President Carter was able to effectively manage the four fundamental characteristics of political public opinion: interpretation, mobilization... (read more)

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Christmas in Plains: Memories
Christmas in Plains: Memories
by Jimmy Carter
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In a beautifully rendered portrait, Jimmy Carter remembers the Christmas days of his Plains boyhood -- the simplicity of family and community gift-giving, his father's eggnog, the children's house decorations, the school Nativity pageant, the fireworks... (read more)

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The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture
The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture
by Jimmy Carter
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The Nobel Lecture was delivered by Jimmy Carter on December 10, 2002, at the ceremony in Oslo, Norway, where he received the Nobel Prize for Peace.... (read more)

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Prophet from Plains: Jimmy Carter and His Legacy
Prophet from Plains: Jimmy Carter and His Legacy
by Frye Gaillard
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Prophet from Plains covers Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter's major achievements and setbacks in light of what has been at once his greatest asset and his greatest flaw: his stubborn, faith-driven integrity. Carter's remarkable postpresidency is... (read more)

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The Real Jimmy Carter: How Our Worst Ex-President Undermines American Foreign Policy, Coddles Dictators, and Created the Party of Clinton and Kerry
The Real Jimmy Carter: How Our Worst Ex-President Undermines American Foreign Policy, Coddles Dictators, and Created the Party of Clinton and Kerry
by Steven F. Hayward
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The Real Jimmy Carter reveals a man who has been given a dangerously free pass by historians, but who in reality is not only a failed ex-president, but as vindictive as he is egotistical, and a self-righteous busybody who leaves disaster in his wake.... (read more)

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The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's Journey to the Nobel Peace Prize
The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's Journey to the Nobel Peace Prize
by Douglas G Brinkley
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Hailed by "Time" magazine as "a fascinating . . . rich, energetic American story", this extraordinary biography will transform America's perception of Jimmy Carter. Photos. National radio telephone tour.... (read more)

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Amer Pres: Carter (American Presidents)
Amer Pres: Carter (American Presidents)
by Julian E Zelizer
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The maverick politician from Georgia who rode the post- Watergate wave into office but whose term was consumed by economic and international crises  A peanut farmer from Georgia, Jimmy Carter rose to national power through mastering the strategy of... (read more)

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Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age
Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age
by Jimmy Carter
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The former president's personal tale of political intrigue and social conflict during his first campaign for public office. Iluminates the origins of his commitment to human rights and bears further witness to the accomplishments of an extraordinary man.... (read more)

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A Moment of Crisis: Jimmy Carter, the Power of a Peacemaker, and North Koreas Nuclear Ambitions
A Moment of Crisis: Jimmy Carter, the Power of a Peacemaker, and North Koreas Nuclear Ambitions
by Marion V Creekmore
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In A Moment of Crisis, Marion V. Creekmore, Jr. tells the story of Jimmy Carter's dramatic intervention in the 1994 North Korean nuclear crisis and shows how Carter prevented what he had determined was an almost certain war. Writing with the cooperation... (read more)

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Away from Home: Letters to My Family
Away from Home: Letters to My Family
by Lillian Carter and Gloria Carter Spann
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Lillian Carter was one of the most loved and admired women in the country. Mother of a president, she was a strong, resolutely independent woman with a mind of her own, determined to bypass the barriers of age and sex. In these letters to her... (read more)

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An Hour before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood
An Hour before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood
by Jimmy Carter
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Filled with the loving memories of his parents, childhood friends, and neighbors, An Hour Before Daylight is Jimmy Carter's beautiful and touching recollection of his Depression-era youth outside of the small town of Plains, Georgia -- a sweeping look at... (read more)

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White House Diary
White House Diary
by Jimmy Carter
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A New York Times Bestseller Each day during his presidency, Jimmy Carter kept a private diary. In it, he supplied unvarnished assessments of cabinet members, congressmen, and foreign leaders, and narrated the progress of secret negotiations; he recorded... (read more)

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A Remarkable Mother
A Remarkable Mother
by Jimmy Carter
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A Remarkable Mother is President Carter's loving, admiring, wry homage to Miss Lillian Carter, who championed the underdog always, even when her son was president. A registered nurse, pecan grower, university housemother, Peace Corps volunteer... (read more)

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Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age
Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age
by Jimmy Carter
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The former president's personal tale of political intrigue and social conflict during his first campaign for public office. Iluminates the origins of his commitment to human rights and bears further witness to the accomplishments of an extraordinary man.... (read more)

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Christmas in Plains: Memories
Christmas in Plains: Memories
by Jimmy Carter
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In a beautifully rendered portrait, Jimmy Carter remembers the Christmas days of his Plains boyhood -- the simplicity of family and community gift-giving, his father's eggnog, the children's house decorations, the school Nativity pageant, the fireworks... (read more)

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What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?: Jimmy Carter, America's "Malaise, " and the Speech That Should Have Changed the Country
What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?: Jimmy Carter, America's "Malaise, " and the Speech That Should Have Changed the Country
by Kevin Mattson
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In 1979, in an effort to right our national malaise, Jimmy Carter delivered a speech that risked his reputation and the future of the Democratic Party, changing the course of American politics for the next twenty-five years. At a critical moment in Jimmy... (read more)

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Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
by Jimmy Carter
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Following his #1 New York Times bestseller Our Endangered Values, the former president, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers an assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice to Palestine. President... (read more)

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Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope
Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope
by Jimmy Carter
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President Jimmy Carter has had one of the most admired and productive post-presidencies in our nation's history. In "Beyond the White House," he recounts how and why he spent the last 25 years in the service of humanity, and in the process won a Nobel... (read more)

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