| Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President Contributor(s): Carter, Jimmy (Author) |
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ISBN: 1557283303 ISBN-13: 9781557283306 Publisher: University of Arkansas Press OUR PRICE: $31.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1995 Annotation: Keeping Faith is Jimmy Carter's account of the satisfaction, frustration, and solitude that attend the man in the Oval Office. Mr. 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. "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. Mr. 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. Captivatingly written, this rich historical document delineates a morally responsible president who has continued to earn respect and admiration as a world statesman and advocate for the poor and repressed of all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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Presidents & Heads Of State - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 95009691 |
| Physical Information: 1.76" H x 5.56" W x 8.5" (1.83 lbs) 640 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Keeping Faith, originally published in 1982, President Carter provides a candid account of his time in the Oval Office, detailing the hostage crisis in Iran, his triumph at the Camp David Middle East peace summit, his relationships with world leaders, and even glimpses into his private world. "Responsible, truthful, intelligent, earnest, rational, purposeful. Thus the man: thus the book" (The Washington Post). |