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Remembering Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter (1924-2024) was the 39th President of the United States and was from Plains, Georgia.

Fulton County Library System

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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.
    Book, 2015New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015. — B CARTER
  • In this powerful reflection, President Jimmy Carter contemplates how faith has sustained him in happiness and disappointment. He considers how we may find it in our own lives.
    Book, 2018New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018. — 234.23 CARTER
  • 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.
    Book, 2021New York : Crown, [2021] — B CARTER
  • The Hornet's Nest

    a Novel of the Revolutionary War

    Carter, Jimmy, 1924-2024
    At the heart of the story is Ethan Pratt, who in 1766 moves with his wife, Epsey, from Philadelphia to North Carolina and then to Georgia in 1771, in the company of Quakers. On their homesteads in Georgia, Ethan and his wife form a friendship with…
    Book, 2003New York : Simon & Schuster, c2003. — FICTION CARTER
  • Thirteen Days in September

    Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David

    Wright, Lawrence, 1947-
    A gripping day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when President Jimmy Carter persuaded Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to sign the first peace treaty in the modern Middle East, one which…
    Book, 2014New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014 — 327.956 WRIGHT
  • 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
    Book, 2010New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. — 973.926 CARTER
  • Jimmy Carter: Citizen of the South uses oral histories and more than 215 photographs to look at the life of the former president and how the South nurtured him, provided a launching pad for his political career, and supported the various activities…
    Book, 2021Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2021] — B CARTER
  • His Very Best

    Jimmy Carter, a Life

    Alter, Jonathan
    From one of America ' s most-respected journalists and modern historians comes the first full-length biography of Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the United States and Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian.
    Book, 2020New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020. — B CARTER
  • The definitive history of the Carter Administration from the man who participated in its surprising number of accomplishments -- drawing on his extensive and never-before-seen notes.
    Book, 2018New York : Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2018. — 973.926092 EIZENSTAT
  • A Call to Action

    Women, Religion, Violence, and Power

    Carter, Jimmy, 1924-2024
    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.
    Book, 2014New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014. — 323.34 CARTER
  • Covering their lives from childhood to the end of the Georgia governorship, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter is one of the few major biographies of an American president that pays significant attention to the First Lady. So deeply were their lives and…
    Book, 2010Oxford, [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. — 920 GODBOLD
  • In this urgent, balanced, 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 just…
    Book, 2009New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009. — 956.054 CARTER