Conversations with Jimmy Carter / edited by Tom Head.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Head, Tom, editor.

Sylvia W. Kauders Fund.

Series:

Literary conversations series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carter, Jimmy, 1924-2024--Interviews.

Carter, Jimmy.

Presidents--United States--Interviews.

Presidents.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xvi, 153 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2023.

Summary:

"When Jimmy Carter (b. 1924) lost the presidency in 1980, it would have been reasonable to think his public life was coming to an end. The moderate, evangelical, blue-jeans-wearing peanut farmer made an unlikely governor of Georgia, and an even less likely winner of the vicious 1976 Democratic presidential primary. Coming into an era of American politics where evangelical and rural voters became increasingly identified with the Reagan revolution, and the Democratic Party's identity became increasingly secular and urban, he did not fit neatly into the political categories of the emerging decade. But it was not politics that would define President Carter in the end: it would be his humble Christian faith and his enduring commitment to the poor, to peace, and to human rights. In Conversations with Jimmy Carter, ten interviews, drawn from Carter's five decades as a national public figure and author, capture the complexities and contradictions that have defined him-and that have helped to both reflect and shape the highest aspirations of the American experiment."--Back cover.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sylvia W. Kauders Fund.

ISBN:

1496846222

9781496846228

1496846230

9781496846235

OCLC:

1355829249

Publisher Number:

99994275849