Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President

by Jimmy Carter

Hardcover, 1982

Collection

Description

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 Captivatingly written, this rich historical document delineates a morally responsible president who has continued to earn respect and admiration as a world statesman and advocate for the poor and repressed of all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.-- President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003.… (more)

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½ (27 ratings; 3.7)

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LibraryThing member HadriantheBlind
Insightful and perceptive. Carter was too honest for politics.

Publication

Bantam Books (Mm) (1982), 622 pages

Original publication date

1982

Pages

622

ISBN

0553050230 / 9780553050233

Language

Original language

English
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