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His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life
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Jimmy Carter has written a great many thoughtful pages about his life, his presidency and his work, but to this point, he has not been the subject of a full-scale biography. Jonathan Alter, known for his biographies of FDR and Barack Obama, as well as his journalistic and political knowledge, proves to be an excellent chronicler. With great anecdotes and subtle insights, Alter reminds us of Carters many and, now, not well-remembered accomplishments—and missteps—and provides captivating context for America in the latter years of the Cold War.
From one of America’s most respected journalists and modern historians comes the highly acclaimed, “splendid” (The Washington Post) biography of Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the United States and Nobel Prize–winning humanitarian.
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Jonathan Alter tells the epic story of an enigmatic man of faith and his improbable journey from barefoot boy to global icon. Alter paints an intimate and surprising portrait of the only president since Thomas Jefferson who can fairly be called a Rena...