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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
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This book was much better than I anticipated. I didn’t know much about Jimmy Cater outside his presidency and I liked the full overview of his life. He took the most memorable and important parts of each era and described them in only a couple paragraphs. I’m impressed in all that he has accomplished.
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Lovely to hear President Carter narrate his book. Shocking to hear about his life in Georgia during the Civil Rights movement and how he refused to go along with his community and their racist practices. That had to be incredibly difficult to do, but goes to show you that his character has been steady throughout his life. Great listen. I enjoy behind the scenes memoirs from our past presidents.
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Looking back at his life -- such an inspirational person!! This was written in 2014, so there was a lot more hope in the country and thus in his writing. Nice to listen to him, a good story-teller.
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I listened to the audiobook.
It was nice hearing Carter himself read this. It was an interesting autobiography of his life written at the age of 90. It was a bit slow at times, but it was interesting and informative.
It was nice hearing Carter himself read this. It was an interesting autobiography of his life written at the age of 90. It was a bit slow at times, but it was interesting and informative.
President Carter is quite different from what I have always thought of him. He is a deeply religious man committed to justice and fairness. He builds furniture. He served in the Navy working on nuclear submarines. I will read other books by him. I recommend.
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I was born in 1971; Mr. Carter is the first president I remember being elected.
I grew up in conservative Iowa. My parents were the only people I knew who (would admit to) voting for him. My early elementary school years were spent listening to my classmates constantly tearing him apart, mostly just repeating things they heard their parents or the media say.
I wish all those same classmates could read this book and tell me what they think of him now. So much has happened in the world and politics since then that his time in the White House seems like it was 100 years ago. Technically, it *is* from another century.
Moreover, the generation President Carter hails from will likely be the last of what passes as Renaissance Men in the United States: a man who can as easily raise a family as be in the military as be a farmer as build houses with his own bare hands and have strong spiritual conviction(s) to guide him. In other words, men who could survive the zombie apocalypse. Certainly none of the presidents after him (save perhaps G.H.W.B.) can lay claim to this.
My father was a bit like this too--having ability and interest in so many different areas, most of which did not get passed on to me as I grew up in a world where I didn't *have* to learn those things (and sadly, I had no interest in learning them). All of that made me appreciative of my father and Mr. Carter, but it made me a little sad to know what my generation has lost.
I grew up in conservative Iowa. My parents were the only people I knew who (would admit to) voting for him. My early elementary school years were spent listening to my classmates constantly tearing him apart, mostly just repeating things they heard their parents or the media say.
I wish all those same classmates could read this book and tell me what they think of him now. So much has happened in the world and politics since then that his time in the White House seems like it was 100 years ago. Technically, it *is* from another century.
Moreover, the generation President Carter hails from will likely be the last of what passes as Renaissance Men in the United States: a man who can as easily raise a family as be in the military as be a farmer as build houses with his own bare hands and have strong spiritual conviction(s) to guide him. In other words, men who could survive the zombie apocalypse. Certainly none of the presidents after him (save perhaps G.H.W.B.) can lay claim to this.
My father was a bit like this too--having ability and interest in so many different areas, most of which did not get passed on to me as I grew up in a world where I didn't *have* to learn those things (and sadly, I had no interest in learning them). All of that made me appreciative of my father and Mr. Carter, but it made me a little sad to know what my generation has lost.