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Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter : the Georgia years, 1924-1974 / E. Stanly Godbold, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Godbold, E. Stanly, Jr., 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carter, Jimmy, 1924-2024.
- Carter, Jimmy.
- Carter, Rosalynn.
- Governors--Georgia--Biography.
- Governors.
- Governors' spouses--Georgia--Biography.
- Governors' spouses.
- Georgia--Politics and government--1951-.
- Georgia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (368 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 aspirations intertwined, a close friend once remarked: ""You can't really understand Jimmy Carter unless you know Rosalynn."" The story of one is the story of the other. To recount their remarkable lives, E. Stanly Godbold, Jr. draws on academic and military records, the governor's correspondence, the recollections of the Carters themselves, as well as
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: The Carters and the Smiths; ONE: A Boy in Archery; TWO: A Girl in Plains; THREE: School Years; FOUR: Annapolis; FIVE: Navy Couple; SIX: The Shadow of Mr. Earl; SEVEN: The Emergence of Rosalynn; EIGHT: First Campaign; NINE: Politics and Business; TEN: Reach for the Governorship, 1966; ELEVEN: Born Again, Running Again; TWELVE: A Conservative Progressive; THIRTEEN: "A Trace of Demagoguery"; FOURTEEN: "Enigma and Contradiction"; FIFTEEN: Georgians at Home; SIXTEEN: The Trail of Martin Luther King, Jr.; SEVENTEEN: Rosalynn in Power; EIGHTEEN: Phoenix Rising
- NINETEEN: Georgians AbroadTWENTY: Jimmy, God, and Fortune; NOTES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786612775949
- 9780199779628
- 0199779627
- 9781282775947
- 1282775944
- 9780199781492
- 0199781494
- OCLC:
- 670228851
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