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A review by julieb
His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life by Jonathan Alter
5.0
“We told the truth. We obeyed the law. We kept the peace.”
Damn, good journalists can write. This is an excellent, comprehensive, fully objective biography of a great man, a good president.
Amy Carter's cat in the White House? Misty Malarky Ying Yang
Craft breweries. Stephen Breyer & Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The Global 2000 Report to the President (climate change! in 1977 - read it here: https://www.cartercenter.org/resources/pdfs/pdf-archive/global2000reporttothepresident--enteringthe21stcentury-01011991.pdf
I totally missed the Mattie J.T. Stepanek story! https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/06/29/celebrating-the-courage-of-mattie/7c505b9f-f89e-4648-a7a9-20fd5aa08686/
And Carter's farewell address: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf01aE7lqxs
Yes, it's long. But damn it reads like a well-crafted novel.
Damn, good journalists can write. This is an excellent, comprehensive, fully objective biography of a great man, a good president.
Amy Carter's cat in the White House? Misty Malarky Ying Yang
Craft breweries. Stephen Breyer & Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The Global 2000 Report to the President (climate change! in 1977 - read it here: https://www.cartercenter.org/resources/pdfs/pdf-archive/global2000reporttothepresident--enteringthe21stcentury-01011991.pdf
I totally missed the Mattie J.T. Stepanek story! https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/06/29/celebrating-the-courage-of-mattie/7c505b9f-f89e-4648-a7a9-20fd5aa08686/
And Carter's farewell address: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf01aE7lqxs
Yes, it's long. But damn it reads like a well-crafted novel.