Carter also shares glimpses of his private world - his feelings of being an outsider in Washington, his relationship with Rosalynn, his pain about the attacks on his friends and his brother Billy.Ĭaptivatingly written, this rich historical document delineates a morally responsible president who has continued to earn respect and admiration as a world statesman and advocate for the poor and repressed of all nations. We came to Washington as outsiders and never appreciably changed this. The President who cared details his anguish over the hostage crisis in Iran, his triumph against all odds at Camp David, his secret communications with China's Deng Xiaoping, and his dramatic and revealing encounters with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, and other world leaders. Carter writes candidly about the crises that confronted him during his tenure as President of the United States and leader of the free world, from 1977 to 1981.
This memoir contains a useful prefatory chronology of his significant activities through 1982.Keeping Faith is Jimmy Carter's account of the satisfaction, frustration, and solitude that attend the man in the Oval Offce. A Democrat, he previously served as a Georgia State Senator from 1963 to 1967 then as the 76th Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. Available for the first time in paperback, Keeping Faith is Jimmy Carters account of the satisfaction, frustration, and solitude that attend the man in the Oval Office.
(born 1924) served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. In Keeping Faith, originally published in 1982, President Carter provides a. Insightful and heartfelt, this memoir is one of President Jimmy Carter's best career summations. Buy a cheap copy of Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President book by Jimmy Carter. Gilt lettering on the cloth's spine has faded and slightly abraded. Item #5373 ISBN: 0353050230 SIGNED & in SUPERIOR CONDITION internally & externally! Solid, tight, clean slipcase with ever-so-lightened border caused by shelving next to a somewhat smaller book. Protected in a deep blue cloth-covered slipcase without lettering. SIGNED by the former President on a special front endpaper, thick 8vo, deep blue cloth with gold lettering on spine, illustrated with many B&W photos & maps of Camp David and Tehran, xiv, + 622 pages. Specially Bound & Signed First Edition, First Printing. Toronto New York London Sydney: Bantam Books, 1982.
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