New Releases by Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter is the author of Christmas in Plains (2001), Conference for Global Development Cooperation (1992) (2000), The Virtues of Aging (1998), Conversations with Carter (1998), Why Not the Best? (1996).

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Christmas in Plains

release date: Oct 19, 2001
Christmas in Plains
Jimmy Carter remembers Christmas in Plains, Georgia, the source of spiritual strength, respite, friendship, and vacation fun in this charming portrait. In a beautifully rendered portrait, Jimmy Carter remembers the Christmas days of his Plains boyhood—the simplicity of family and community gift-giving, his father’s eggnog, the children’s house decorations, the school Nativity pageant, the fireworks, Luke’s story of the birth of Christ, and the poignancy of his black neighbors’ poverty. Later, away at Annapolis, he always went home to Plains, and during his Navy years, when he and Rosalynn were raising their young family, they spent their Christmases together recreating for their children the holiday festivities of their youth. Since the Carters returned home to Plains for good, they have always been there on Christmas Day, with only one exception in forty-eight years: In 1980, with Americans held hostage in Iran, Jimmy, Rosalynn, and Amy went by themselves to Camp David, where they felt lonely. Amy suggested that they invite the White House staff and their families to join them and to celebrate. Nowadays the Carters’ large family is still together at Christmastime, offering each other the gifts and the lifelong rituals that mark this day for them. With the novelist’s eye that enchanted readers of his memoir An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter has written another American classic, in the tradition of Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory and Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales.

Conference for Global Development Cooperation (1992)

release date: Feb 01, 2000

The Virtues of Aging

release date: Oct 13, 1998
The Virtues of Aging
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Former president Jimmy Carter reflects on aging, blending memoir, anecdote, political savvy, and practical advice to truly illuminate the rich promises of growing older. “As we''ve grown older, the results have been surprisingly good,” writes former president Jimmy Carter in this wise, deeply personal meditation on the new experiences that come to us with age. President Carter had never enjoyed more prestige or influence on the world stage, nor had he ever felt more profound happiness with himself, with his accomplishments, and with his beloved wife, Rosalynn, than in his golden years. In The Virtues of Aging, Jimmy Carter shares the knowledge and the pleasures that age have brought him. The approach to old age was not an easy one for President Carter. At fifty-six, having lost a presidential election, he found himself involuntarily retired from a job he loved and facing a large debt on his farm and warehouse business. President Carter writes movingly here of how he and Rosalynn overcame their despair and disappointment as together they met the challenges ahead. President Carter delves into issues he and millions of others confront in planning for retirement, undertaking new diet and exercise regimens, coping with age prejudice, and sorting out key political questions. On a more intimate level, Carter paints a glowing portrait of his happy marriage to Rosalynn, a relationship that deepened when they became grandparents. Here too are fascinating sketches of world leaders, Nobel laureates, and great thinkers President Carter has been privileged to know—and the valuable lessons on aging he learned from them. The Virtues of Aging celebrates both the blessings that come to us as we grow older and the blessings older people can bestow upon others. An important and moving book, written with gentleness, humor, and love, The Virtues of Aging is a treasure for readers of all ages.

Conversations with Carter

release date: Jan 01, 1998
Conversations with Carter
Jimmy Carter participated in more than two hundred interviews between 1976 and 1996. In the twenty-three conversations presented here, highly regarded interviewers lead President Carter to clarify his public stands and private beliefs. The dialogue created through these encounters demonstrates the growth of a principled man, encapsulating the major debates and concerns of the last quarter of the "American Century."

Why Not the Best?

release date: Aug 01, 1996
Why Not the Best?
Why Not the Best?, originally published in 1975, is President Carter’s presidential campaign autobiography, the book that introduced the world to Georgia governor Jimmy Carter and asked the American people to demand the best and highest standards of excellence from our government.

A Government as Good as Its People

release date: May 01, 1996
A Government as Good as Its People
A Government as Good as Its People, first published in 1977, presents sixty-two of the most notable public statements made by President Carter on his way to the White House. Formal speeches, news conferences, informal remarks made at gatherings, interviews, and excerpts from debates give a vivid glimpse into the issues of the time and the deeply held convictions of Jimmy Carter.

Talking Peace

release date: Jan 01, 1995
Talking Peace
Discusses the various factors involved in peace negotiations and conflict resolution, examining such elements as the living conditions of citizens in peacetime and wartime and the effect of international relations on innocent citizens

Always a Reckoning, and Other Poems

release date: Jan 01, 1995
Always a Reckoning, and Other Poems
A collection of poetry by the former president shares Carter''s private meditations and memories about his youth, family, friends, and politics. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Historical Materials in the Jimmy Carter Library

release date: Jan 01, 1995

Science, Technology, and Government for a Changing World

release date: Jun 01, 1993

An Outdoor Journal

release date: Jun 01, 1989
An Outdoor Journal
In his most personal book yet, bestselling author and former president Jimmy Carter talks about his delightful journey through the seasons of hunting, fishing and hiking.

Negotiation, the Alternative to Hostility

Keeping Faith

Keeping Faith
President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003.

President Carter's acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention, New York, August 14, 1980

News Conference on Iran, November 28, 1979

The United States and the Soviet Union : [remarks]

Report on the Reform and Restructuring of the United Nations System

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