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Author:
Jonathan Alter
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Date:
September 29, 2020
An intimate portrait of the 39th president draws on fresh archival material to trace Jimmy Carter's improbable rise from a humble peanut farmer and complex man of faith to an American president and Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian.
What The Reviewers Say
Jonathan Alter’s important, fair-minded, highly readable contribution to this literature provides not just an authoritative introduction to Carter’s feats and failures but also insight into why a man of such intelligence, drive and noble intentions floundered in the White House as haplessly as he did.
... [a] splendid new biography.
Alter makes his case convincingly.
Alter’s scrupulously researched and judicious book...provides a fascinating account of Carter’s formative years.
