Jimmy Carter: A Comprehensive Biography from Plains to Post-Presidency - Hardcover

Bourne, Peter G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684195437 ISBN 13: 9780684195438

Publisher: Scribner, 1997

Synopsis

An intimate biography of the thirty-ninth president explores the life, presidency, and post-presidential years of Jimmy Carter in light of the South and its deep feeling of inferiority and its equally deep Christianity. 45,000 first printing. Tour.

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About the Author

Peter G. Bourne is professor of psychiatry at St. George's Medical School in Grenada.

Reviews

Bourne is more admiring of Carter than was Kenneth Morris in Jimmy Carter: American Moralist , but Bourne worked with Carter through much of his political career. Both authors valuably expand details about Carter's formative influences: in Bourne's treatment, a figure as important as Carter's parents is his high-school teacher, an energetic woman who instilled her students with high aspirations. Had Carter never gone beyond the navy, he would still have been the success story of Plains; and his decision to resign his commission and return was bitterly resisted by his wife, Rosalynn, a conflict sensitively portrayed by Bourne. Beginning in 1962 with the episode of vote fraud that Carter told in his Turning Point (1992), Bourne furnishes the inside view of campaigns and issues up to a primary-by-primary account of the 1976 election. Bourne criticizes Carter's fiscal conservatism, but little else in his man's controversial presidency. Although biased, Bourne is capaciously informative, insightful about Carter's religiosity, and well worth the attention of most libraries. Gilbert Taylor

The author of Fidel and a friend and former White House associate of Carter offers another biography of our 39th president.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684195437
• ISBN 13: 9780684195438
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 560