Jimmy Carter
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President Carter has written importantly about his spiritual life and faith. In this book, he offers a personal consideration of "moral values" as they relate to the important issues of the day. He puts forward a passionate defense of separation of church and state, and a strong warning of where the country is heading as the lines between politics and rigid religious fundamentalism are blurred. He reacts to some trends involving both the religious...
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Each day during his presidency, Jimmy Carter made several entries in a private diary, recording his thoughts, impressions, delights, and frustrations. He offered unvarnished assessments of cabinet members, congressmen, and foreign leaders; he narrated the progress of secret negotiations such as those that led to the Camp David Accords. When his four-year term came to an end in early 1981, the diary amounted to more than five thousand pages. But this...
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Nobel Peace Laureate Jimmy Carter argues that the present moment is a unique time for achieving peace in the Middle East--and he offers a bold and comprehensive plan. For the last three decades, as President of the United States and as founder of The Carter Center, Carter has studied the complex and interrelated issues of the region's conflicts and has been actively involved in reconciling them. He knows the leaders of all factions who will need to...
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With this intricately detailed novel of the American South and the Revolutionary War, President Carter becomes our first chief executive, past or present, to publish a work of fiction. By concentrating on Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas from 1763 to 1783, Carter takes a fresh look at this crucial historical period, giving life and originality to a story usually told from the viewpoint of the northern colonies. There's a large cast of characters,...
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Includes 52 shortened versions of Sunday School classes taught by the former president during the past twenty years at a variety of Baptist Churches, including the Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia. Each lesson revolves around a particular Biblical passage and many include personal anecdotes.
12) Living faith
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This is a book about the values and experiences that have shaped my life, and how the religious beliefs I inherited have been transformed into a living faith. I have waited a long time to write these words, because religion is a private matter-and my own faith has been the subject of much public speculation. Yet I think that my close relationship with God is something I share with many Americans of different traditions.
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"For most young people, crossing the threshold from adolescence into adulthood is an angst-filled journey that can take years to complete, and requires the guidance and support of caring adults. But for some children, there is a deadline past which no guidance, support, or supervision is available. Each year, as many as 25,000 teenagers 'age out' of foster care, usually when they turn eighteen. For most of their lives, a government agency had made...
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Companion book to the PBS series of the same name, Craft in America highlights the work of America's craft artists, past and present. Illustrated with more than 200 images and signature objects from furniture, wood, ceramics, and glass, to fiber, quilts, jewelry, metal, and basketry, this work shows how crafts, long admired for their marriage of functionality and creativity, also reflect our nation's history and the remarkable people who passed on...
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This documentary examines Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legacy. Filmed in Atlanta on the first federal holiday in his honor, an impressive group of distinguished public figures is interviewed, including: former President Jimmy Carter; Rev. Jesse Jackson; Bishop Desmond Tutu; Rev. Ralph Abernathy; Julian Bond; Senator Edward Kennedy; Andrew Young; Bill Cosby, among others. Archival footage recounts highlights of Dr. King's actions and accomplishments...