Jimmy Carter, 39th President and Nobel Peace Prize winner, died December 29, 2024, at 100 years old. This compilation of books is just a small part of his legacy, with an emphasis on his own writing, but not a comprehensive view of what the Library owns. Search the catalog or ask a librarian for more.
256.23 CAR
Faith: A Journey for All / Jimmy Carter
As President Carter examines faith’s many meanings, he describes how to accept it and live it, and how to doubt and find faith again. A serious and moving reflection from one of America’s most admired and respected citizens. Also available as an audiobook on Libby.
323.34 CAR
A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power / Jimmy Carter
Carter draws upon his own experiences and the testimony of courageous women from all regions and all major religions to demonstrate that women around the world, more than half of all human beings, are being denied equal rights. Also available as an audiobook on hoopla.
811.54 CAR
Always a Reckoning, and Other Poems / Jimmy Carter
A collection of 44 poems by President Jimmy Carter, organized by places, politics, people, and private lives.
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Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid / Jimmy Carter
The former president and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize offers a courageous assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel, with dignity and justice to Palestine. Also available as an audiobook on hoopla.
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White House Diary / Jimmy Carter
The edited, annotated diary of President Jimmy Carter—filled with insights into his presidency, his relationships with friends and foes, and his lasting impact on issues that still preoccupy America and the world. Also available as an e-book and audiobook on hoopla.
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Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope / Jimmy Carter
Through the Carter Center, the former president has fought neglected diseases, waged peace in war zones, and built hope among some of the most forgotten and needy people in the world.
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A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety / Jimmy Carter
The 39th president and Nobel Peace Prize winner reflects on his full and happy life with pride, humor, and a few second thoughts.
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The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter / Kai Bird
Bird traces the arc of Carter’s administration, from his aggressive domestic agenda to his controversial foreign policy record, taking readers inside the Oval Office and through Carter’s battles with both a political establishment and a Washington press corps that proved as adversarial as any foreign power. Bird shows how issues still hotly debated today—national health care, growing inequality and racism, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—burned at the heart of Carter’s America, and consumed a president who found a moral duty in solving them. Also available as an audiobook on Libby.
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His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life / Jonathan Alter
Drawing on fresh archival material and five years of extensive access to Carter and his entire family, Alter traces how Jimmy Carter evolved from a timid, bookish child—raised mostly by a Black woman—into an ambitious naval nuclear engineer, writing passionate never-before-published love letters from sea to his wife and full partner, Rosalynn; a peanut farmer and civic leader whose guilt over ducking the white terrorism around him helped power his later humanitarian commitments; an obscure, born-again governor whose brilliant 1976 campaign took him from zero percent to the presidency; a stubborn outsider who failed politically amid the bad economy of the 1970s and the seizure of American hostages in Iran but succeeded in engineering peace between Israel and Egypt, amassing a historic environmental record, moving the government from tokenism to diversity, setting a new global standard for human rights, and normalizing relations with China.
On hoopla
Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations from the 39th President
The former president, a devout Christian and longtime Sunday school teacher at his home church in Plains, Georgia, takes you on a unique journey into the heart of the Christian faith. Available as an audiobook on hoopla.
