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Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter

Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter

Jeff Carter

Even so, between Jimmy Carter's Gordy and Carter lineages and Rosalynn Carter's Murray and Smith lineages, there are a lot of ancestors. For the Carters, the provable line goes back to Thomas Carter, who was in Isle of Wight, Virginia,  ...
Prophet from Plains: Jimmy Carter and His Legacy

Prophet from Plains: Jimmy Carter and His Legacy

Frye Gaillard

Jimmy Carter's major achievements and setbacks in light of his stubborn, faith-driven integrity is covered in a biography that places Carter in the tradition of the Old Testament prophets who took uncompromising stands for peace and justice ...
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: The Georgia Years, 1924-1974

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: The Georgia Years, 1924-1974

E. Stanly Godbold, Jr.

Atlanta Constitution, August 15, 1971; Cooper C. Clements to JC, November 18, 1971, JC to Clements, December 2, 1971, RG 1-1-5, JC, box 17, GDAH; Simmons, Rosalynn Carter, 56–57; Mental Health Activities of RSC, in VF, Carter, Jimmy, ...
Prophet from Plains: Jimmy Carter and His Legacy

Prophet from Plains: Jimmy Carter and His Legacy

Frye Gaillard

Prophet from Plains covers Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter's major achievements and setbacks in light of what has been at once his greatest asset and his greatest flaw: his stubborn, faith-driven integrity.
Buzz: Real-life Lessons in Word-of-Mouth Marketing

Buzz: Real-life Lessons in Word-of-Mouth Marketing

Emanuel Rosen

When Jackie Huba and Ben McConnell: Interview with Jackie Huba and Ben McConnell, Oct. 23, 2007. 7. Why We Talk When Jimmy Carter was growing up: Jimmy Carter, An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood (New York : ...
Rosalynn Carter: Her Life Story

Rosalynn Carter: Her Life Story

Dawn Langley Simmons

Anecdotes and photographs are presented in an account of Rosalynn Carter's ancestry, childhood, and first meeting with Jimmy Carter, their courtship, marriage, and family business, and her political role up to her experiences in the White ...
Planet Neptune and the Modern US Presidents: Franklin ...

Planet Neptune and the Modern US Presidents: Franklin ...

Suzanne Angioli

Suzanne Angioli. 19241974. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 130. 38. E. Stanly Godbold, Jr., Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter: The Georgia Years, 19241974. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 191. 39. Julian E. Zelizer, Jimmy Carter.
A Moment of Crisis: Jimmy Carter, the Power of a Peacemaker, ...

A Moment of Crisis: Jimmy Carter, the Power of a Peacemaker, ...

Marion Creekmore

Robert Gallucci told me much later that the meeting was one of the most difficult in which he had ever been involved. It was “truly awful in all of its manifestations,” Gallucci elaborated. “I felt I had a special relationship with President Carter, and ...
Power Lines: Two Years on South Africa's Borders

Power Lines: Two Years on South Africa's Borders

Jason Carter

In Power Lines, Jason Carter, grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, offers a portrait of South Africa that few outsiders see.
Rosalynn Carter: Equal Partner in the White House

Rosalynn Carter: Equal Partner in the White House

Scott Kaufman

A portrait of an ambitious, brilliant, and hardworking woman. It details the many roles Rosalynn played in support of President Jimmy Carter and also documents the ambivalence of the American public to some of her activities."
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy ...

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy ...

Carter, Jimmy

Minister of External Affairs Ishaya Audu and Ambassador to the United States Olujimi Jolaoso were among those who accompanied President Shagari. In reviewing bilateral relations, the Presidents discussed the U.S.-Nigerian Joint ...
Jimmy Carter, the Politics of Family, and the Rise of the ...

Jimmy Carter, the Politics of Family, and the Rise of the ...

J. Brooks Flippen

By acknowledging certain behaviors as sinful while insisting that they were private matters beyond government interference, J. Brooks Flippen argues, Carter unintentionally alienated both social liberals and conservative Christians, thus ...
Lillian Carter: A Compassionate Life

Lillian Carter: A Compassionate Life

Grant Hayter-Menzies

Written with the cooperation of President Jimmy Carter and his family, this book provides an intimate glimpse inside the life of the woman who--as nurse, mother and social justice activist in segregated southwest Georgia--made a lifelong ...
A Companion to Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter

A Companion to Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter

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Brian J. Auten, on the other hand, asserts that the shift in foreign policy grew from security needs. In this telling, Carter's strategic adjustment resulted from what Auten calls “a prudent (albeit late) change in the assessment of the Soviet Union's ...
The Country Music Reader

The Country Music Reader

Travis D. Stimeling

CARTER: WILLIAMS: CARTER: WILLIAMS: CARTER: WILLIAMS: CARTER: WILLIAMS: CARTER: WILLIAMS: CARTER: WILLIAMS: CARTER: WILLIAMS: CARTER: That was before I married. Where did you meet Mr. Carter? I went down to ...
The Canadaland Guide to Canada

The Canadaland Guide to Canada

Jesse Brown

“Jimmy Pattison” That sounds madeup, right? That's because Jimmy Pattison is essentially a cartoon business person. Close your eyes and imagine a self-made billionaire person named “Jimmy Pattison.” That's pretty much Jimmy Pattison.
An Outsider in the White House: Jimmy Carter, His Advisors, ...

An Outsider in the White House: Jimmy Carter, His Advisors, ...

Betty Glad

Based on recently declassified documents in the Carter Library, materials not previously noted in the Vance papers, and a wide variety of interviews, Betty Glad's An Outsider in the White House is a rich and nuanced depiction of the ...
Church & Synagogue Libraries

Church & Synagogue Libraries

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Author of A New Life to Live: The Story of Jimmy Putman You are known for your success in tracing sensational stories to their sources. How did you come upon the story of Jimmy Putman? A Jimmy's mother came to me in 1946 with one of the  ...
Our country's Presidents

Our country's Presidents

Frank Burt Freidel

Presents brief biographies of the Presidents from George Washington to Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy Carter: America's 39th President

Jimmy Carter: America's 39th President

Deborah Kent

Presents the life and accomplishments of the United States president who worked actively to negotiate peace in the Middle East through the Camp David Talks.
Fear And Loathing In America: The Brutal Odyssey of an ...

Fear And Loathing In America: The Brutal Odyssey of an ...

Hunter S. Thompson

Letters spanning the years between 1968 and 1976 highlight the author's biting wit, scary powers of observation, and encounters with such notables as Jimmy Carter, Tom Wolfe, and Kurt Vonnegut.
Diplomatic Afterlives

Diplomatic Afterlives

Andrew F. Cooper

... “Clintons' Canadian buddy,” Toronto Star, 3 February 2008, http://www.thestar. com/business/ 2008/02/03/clintons_canadian_buddy.html Carol Felsenthal, “ Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton: They Genuinely Dislike Each Other” Huffington Post, ...
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: The Georgia Years, 1924-1974

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: The Georgia Years, 1924-1974

E. Stanly Godbold, Jr.

Volume I in this two-volume biography details how the Carters rose to power, managed their private and public lives, governed Georgia, and seized control of the national Democratic party.
A New Life to Live: Jimmy Putman's Story

A New Life to Live: Jimmy Putman's Story

Jimmy Putman

The rebirth of the illegitimate son of one of the most powerful men in American politics.
Meet Jimmy Strange

Meet Jimmy Strange

Ernest Dudley

Jimmy Strange is a mysterious young man who turns up when he is least expected.
Forsaking All Others: A Novel

Forsaking All Others: A Novel

Jimmy Breslin

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Jimmy Breslin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American ...

The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American ...

David E. Shi

Looking across three centuries of want and prosperity, war and peace, this work introduces a cast of practitioners and proponents of the simple life, among them Thomas Jefferson, Scott and Helen Nearing, Jimmy Carter and Jane Addams.

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