Jimmy Carter : a comprehensive biography from Plains to post-presidency

Bourne, Peter G., 1939-, author.

Book 1997

He is known as the Great Peace Maker, a man whose humanitarian ideals prompt his diplomatic intervention in places like Haiti, North Korea, Bosnia, the Middle East. Whether negotiating a cease-fire in shell-shocked Sarajevo or building houses for the homeless in Appalachia, Jimmy Carter can be found at the helm of a vast array of humanitarian efforts. An annual nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, he embodies the qualities that the American public...

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ISBN:

9780684195438
0684195437

Description:

553 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : photographs, portraits ; 25 cm

Notes:

"A Lisa Drew book."
Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Ellis Arnall.
Griffin Bell.
Lloyd Bentsen.
Edmund Brown.
George Bush.
Landon Butler.
Pat Caddell.
Joseph Califano.
Howard Callaway.
Bill Clinton.
Julia Coleman.
Richard Daley.
Morris Dees.
Gerald Ford.
Stuart Eizenstat.
Elections.
Warren Fortson.
David Gambrell.
John Giarardeau.
Barry Goldwater.
James Gordy.
William Gunter.
James Gray.
Cloyd Hall.
Jubert Humphrey.
Joe Hurst.
Henry Jackson.
Thomas Jefferson.
Lyndon B.Johnson.
Clarence JOnes.
Hamilton Jordan.
Edward Kennedy.
John F. Kennedy.
Martin Luther King.
Charles Kirbo.
Henry Kissinger.
Tim Kraft.
Ku Klux Klan.
Bert Lance.
Edna Langford.
Robert Lipshutz.
George McGovern.
Lester Maddox.
Dick Moe.
Walter Mondale.
Frank Moore.
Edmund Muskie.
Reinhold Niebuhr.
Sam Nunn.
Thomas O'Neill.
Robert Pastor.
Conie Plunkett.
Brooks Pennington.
Jody Powell.
David Rabban.
Gerald Rafshoon.
Ronald Reagan.
Hyman Rickover.
David Rockefeller.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Al Rusher.
Richard Russell.
Anwar Sadat.
Carl Sanders.
Saudi Arabia.
James Schlesinger.
Greg Schneiders.
Charles Schultze.
Marvin Shoob.
Sargent Shriver.
Mark Siegel.
Ethel Carter Slappey.
Frances Smith.
Murray smith.
Gloria Carter Spann.
Ruth Carter Stapleton.
Adlai Stevenson.
Herman Talmadge.
Dylan Thomas.
Harry Truman.
Morris Udall.
Cyrus Vance.
Ernest Vandiver.
Vietnam War.
George Wallace.
Watergate.
Jack Watson.
Thomas Edward Watson.
Woodrow Wilson.
Phil Wise.
Sam Wise.
Andrew Young

LCCN:

96048593

Control Number:

66691

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