Reflections at 90: How Lyndon Carter Surrounded the Mid-Atlantic and Vietnam Wars in 1976, and How Donald J. Carter Defended in the Second World War
Carter was still writing even at the age of 90. In A Full Life: Reflections at 90, Carter looks back at his long life – from growing up in rural Georgia to realizing causes he’s most passionate about – and shares the lessons he’s learned along the way.
Carter gives his opinion on the Israel-Palestine conflict and his knowledge of the history of the Middle East in a written report.
Mr. Carter’s own party had little to do with him coming to the presidency. Even though he and his wife were not involved, he surprised everyone in America when he beat Gerald Ford in the 1976 election.
He could not have run at a better time. The previous decade was a poor one for the United States. Lyndon Johnson didn’t seek another term due to increasing public anger at the war in Vietnam. Nixon resigned in order to avoid being impeached. Assassinations claimed the lives of yet another Kennedy, Bobby, as well as the nation’s premier civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. The war ended in failure.
Jimmy Carter: The White House Years: Faith, Justice, and Freedom in the era of Darkness. A Journey Through God’s Grace, Beauty, and Death
Published in 2005, Carter offers a defense of the separation of church and state, as well as his takes on contemporary issues such as women’s rights, abortion, terrorism, and the death penalty.
Carter’s memoir describes his upbringing in a mostly white Georgia during the Great Depression. The man reflects on living in a sharecropping economy as he paints a portrait of his family.
Carter had a campaign autobiography titled Why Not the Best? in 1975. Since then, he’s written more than 30 works. “Of all our modern Presidents, Jimmy Carter was America’s most protean author,” his publisher Jonathan Karp, president and CEO of Simon & Schuster, said in a statement issued in late February 2023. “In all of his books, he maintained a voice of great integrity and intellectual honesty.”
The President Carter: The White House Years provides an in-depth look at the Carter administration, and was written by Carter’s domestic policy adviser. The account has over 5,000 pages of notes, and 350 interviews of major players of the time.
Carter has always been a strong believer in religion and its importance in his life. But his book Faith: A Journey For All is about much more than that. Carter explores faith’s many meanings, how it sustains our lives, and how to findfaith even in the midst of darkness.
