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Honoring Jimmy Carter

President Jimmy Carter passed away on 12/29. Carter served as the 39th president of the United States and has been celebrated over and over again for his incredible work on humanitarian efforts.

Greenwich Library

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  • In this powerful and personal New York Times bestseller, President Jimmy Carter contemplates how faith has sustained him in happiness and disappointment and considers how we may find it in our own lives.
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2018. — 234.23 CARTE
  • In his major New York Times bestseller, Jimmy Carter looks back from ninety years of age and “reveals private thoughts and recollections over a fascinating career as businessman, politician, evangelist, and humanitarian”
    BookNew York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2015. — 973.926 CARTE CARTE
  • The edited, annotated diary of President Jimmy Carter--filled with insights into his presidency, his relationships with friends and foes, and his lasting impact on issues that still preoccupy America and the world.
    BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. — 973.926 CARTE CARTE
  • In this urgent, timely, and passionate book, Nobel Peace Laureate and former President Jimmy Carter argues that the present moment is a unique time for achieving peace in the Middle East—and he offers a bold and comprehensive plan to do…
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, [2009] — 956.054 CARTE CARTE
  • 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.
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, [2006] — 956.04 CARTE
  • Jimmy Carter remembers Christmas in Plains, Georgia, the source of spiritual strength, respite, friendship, and vacation fun in this charming portrait.
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2001. — 394.2663 CARTE CARTE
  • Former president Jimmy Carter reflects on aging, blending memoir, anecdote, political savvy, and practical advice to truly illuminate the rich promises of growing older.
    BookNew York : Ballantine Pub. Group, 1998. — 305.26 CARTE
  • Keeping Faith is Jimmy Carter's account of the satisfaction, frustration, and solitude that attend the man in the Oval Office.
    BookToronto ; New York : Bantam Books, 1982. — 973.926 CARTE CARTE
  • The Outlier

    the Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

    Bird, Kai,
    An essential re-evaluation of the complex triumphs and tragedies of Jimmy Carter’s presidential legacy - from the expert biographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of American Prometheus.
    BookNew York : Crown, [2021] — 973.926 CARTE BIRD
  • His Very Best

    Jimmy Carter, a Life

    Alter, Jonathan,
    From one of America’s most respected journalists and modern historians comes the highly acclaimed, biography of Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States and Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian.
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2020. — 973.926 CARTE ALTER
  • Team of Five

    the Presidents Club in the Age of Trump

    Brower, Kate Andersen,
    A poignant, news-making look at the lives of the five former presidents in the wake of their White House years, including the surprising friendships they have formed through shared perspective and empathy.
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, [2020] — 973.099 BROWE
  • Camelot's End

    Kennedy Vs. Carter and the Fight That Broke the Democratic Party

    Ward, Jon
    From a strange, dark chapter in American political history comes the captivating story of Ted Kennedy's 1980 campaign for president against the incumbent Jimmy Carter, told in full for the first time.
    eBook[Place of publication not identified] : Grand Central Publishing, 2019. — EBOOK
  • Redeemer

    The Life of Jimmy Carter

    Balmer, Randall Herbert
    Evangelical Christianity and conservative politics are today seen as inseparable. But when Jimmy Carter, a Democrat and a born-again Christian, won the presidency in 1976, he owed his victory in part to American evangelicals, who responded…
    eBook[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2014. — EBOOK
  • The maverick politician from Georgia who rode the post- Watergate wave into office but whose term was consumed by economic and international crises.
    BookNew York : Times Books, 2010. — 973.926 CARTE ZELIZ
  • Jimmy Carter has baffled the public from his first bid for elective office in racially divided rural Georgia through his postpresidential career as a global peacemaker and human rights activist. Is he a moral visionary or a well-meaning…
    BookAthens : University of Georgia Press, 1996. — 973.926 MORRI