A full life : reflections at ninety / Jimmy Carter.
Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
2015
E873 .A3 2015 (Mapit)
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Title A full life : reflections at ninety / Jimmy Carter.
Author Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
ISBN 9781501115639 hardcover
1501115634 hardcover
Published New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Language English
Description 257 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Call Number E873 .A3 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 973.926092 B
Summary Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherman, reflects on his full and happy life with pride, humor, and a few second thoughts. At ninety, Carter reflects on his public and private life with a frankness that is disarming. He adds detail and emotion about his youth in rural Georgia that he described in his earlier memoir An Hour Before Daylight. He writes about racism and the isolation of the Carters. He describes the brutality of the hazing regimen at Annapolis, how he nearly lost his life twice serving on submarines, and his amazing interview with Admiral Rickover. He describes the profound influence his mother had on him, and how he admired his father even though he didn't emulate him. He admits that he decided to quit the Navy and later enter politics without consulting his wife, Rosalynn, and how appalled he is in retrospect. In A Full Life, Carter reveals both what he is proud of and what he might do differently. He discusses his regret at losing his re-election, but how he and Rosalynn pushed on and made a new life and second and third rewarding careers. He is frank about the presidents who have succeeded him, world leaders, and his passions for the causes he cares most about, particularly the condition of women and the deprived people of the developing world.
Note Includes index.
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Archery and the race issue
Navy years
Back to Georgia
Atlanta to Washington
Life in the White House
Issues mostly resolved
Problems still pending
Back home.

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