His very best : Jimmy Carter, a life /
Jonathan Alter
Bok · Engelsk · 2020
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| Omfang | vii, 782 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Utgave | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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| Opplysninger | Formerly CIP.. - "From one of America's most respected journalists and modern historians comes the first full-length biography of Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States and Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian. Jonathan Alter tells the epic story of an enigmatic man of faith and his improbable journey from barefoot boy to global icon. Alter paints an intimate and surprising portrait of the only president since Thomas Jefferson who can fairly be called a Renaissance Man, a complex figure--ridiculed and later revered--with a piercing intelligence, prickly intensity, and biting wit beneath the patented smile. Here is a moral exemplar for our times, a flawed but underrated president of decency and vision who was committed to telling the truth to the American people.Growing up in one of the meanest counties in the Jim Crow South, Carter is the only American president who essentially lived in three centuries: his early life on the farm in the 1920s without electricity or running water might as
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| ISBN | 1501125486. - 9781501125485
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