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Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter was born in Plains, Georgia, and served as thirty-ninth President of the United States. He and his wife, Rosalynn, founded The Carter Center, a nonprofit organization that prevents and resolves conflicts, enhances freedom and democracy, and improves health around the world. He is the author of numerous books, including Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, An Hour Before Daylight and Our Endangered Values. He received a "Best Spoken Word" Grammy Award for his recording of Our Endangered Values. All of President Carter's proceeds from this series will go to the Maranatha Baptist Church of Plains, Georgia.

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The Nobel Book of Answers is now available in Trade Paperback
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The Nobel Book of Answers will be released on October 15, 2010 in Trade Paperback
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Christmas In Plains
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FROM ABUJA WRITERS’ FORUM, A PRIMER FOR BETTER SCRIPTS
This Day Online, April 19, 2013
...getting quality editing for our works has been as problematic as getting funding for publishing”. Hamdala Plaza, on Jimmy Carter Street, Asokoro, Abuja, has been a bee-hive of activities since April 6, when the workshop started. Not that the plaza is...
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...and in Vietnam, a U.S. negotiator for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and an adviser to President Jimmy Carter’s secretary of defense . “I could listen to his stories for hours,” recalls Robinson, of Canal Winchester. That kind of learning...
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...s economic perspective comes from years working in government and education. After serving in the Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter administrations, he was secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. It was Reich's views on the economy...
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Chronicle of Higher Education, April 15, 2013
...Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland (both administrations), Benjamin Harrison, William Howard Taft, Calvin Coolidge, and Jimmy Carter. Land, as Far as the Eye Can See: Portuguese in the Old West by Donald Warrin and...
Book review: 'Lunch With The FT: 52 Classic Interviews' is a must read
Mid Day, April 14, 2013
...book is edited by FT’s editor Lionel Barber. The collection includes interviews with iconic personalities such as Jimmy Carter, Imran Khan, Albert Uderzo, Queen Rania, Dolce & Gabbana, Saif Gaddafi and manyothers. Donald Rumsfeld What perhaps makes...
Time editors discuss new book about presidents at McDaniel College
World News Network, April 13, 2013
...accommodations for the Secret Service in the basement. The townhouse on West Jackson Place is the residence where Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and both George Bushes stay when they are in Washington on official business. The quartet refer... more...
For 2016, Democrats Value Experience; The GOP Likes Novelty
Associated Content, April 12, 2013
...once, in 1988), Bill Clinton before 1992 (none), Michael Dukakis in 1988 (none), Walter Mondale in 1984 (none), Jimmy Carter in 1976 (none), and George McGovern in 1972 (none, unless you count the fragmented 1968 convention). Clearly, Democrats wanted...
From The Archives: Inaugural Firsts, Ball Gowns And JFK
WUKY, January 19, 2013
...U.S. president never to have won a national election. Credit Courtesy Library of Congress Jan. 20, 1977: Jimmy Carter was the first president to walk from the Capitol to the White House with his family following his inauguration. Credit Chip...
America's Big Political Fight: Will We Grapple with Reality or Fully Detach and Live in Fantasyland?
AlterNet.org, January 19, 2013
...Iran-Contra scandal, but its apparent origins in treacherous Republican activities during Campaign 1980 – contacting Iran behind President Jimmy Carter’s back – were swept under the rug by mainstream Democrats and the Washington press corps. ...
Presidential Victory Walk Now a Key Inaugural Moment
Lakeland Ledger, January 19, 2013
...inaugural moment, one expected by the public and the press. And though the tradition dates only to President Jimmy Carter, it has already developed an air of inevitability and predictable patterns. Charlie Brotman, who has been the announcer for the...
Hail to the Poet: Presidential Inaugural Verse 1961-2013
Charleston Gazette, January 19, 2013
...turbulent years following Kennedy's assassination and Lyndon Johnson's election, the appeal of an inaugural poem waned. Jimmy Carter apparently gave it no thought, nor did Ronald Reagan, nor George H. W. Bush. In 1993, however, Bill Clinton revived the...
Unexpected inaugural moments make history, too
Beaver County Times, January 19, 2013
...own party through an election. It had last happened in 1929, when Herbert Hoover succeeded Calvin Coolidge. With Jimmy Carter looking on, Ronald Reagan took the oath as the nation's 40th president on an unusually warm January day. But what happened...
Unexpected inaugural moments make history, too
Sify, January 19, 2013
...election. It had last happened in 1929, when Herbert Hoover succeeded Calvin Coolidge. _____ 1981 and 1985: With Jimmy Carter looking on, Ronald Reagan took the oath as the nation's 40th president on an unusually warm January day. But what happened...
Unexpected inaugural moments make history, too
Fresno Bee, January 19, 2013
...election. It had last happened in 1929, when Herbert Hoover succeeded Calvin Coolidge. ----- 1981 and 1985: With Jimmy Carter looking on, Ronald Reagan took the oath as the nation's 40th president on an unusually warm January day. But what happened...