Jimmy Carter
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Carter was born and raised in Plains, Georgia. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946 and joined the U.S. Navy's submarine service. Carter returned home after his military service and revived his family's peanut-growing business. Opposing racial segregation, Carter supported the growing civil rights movement, and became an activist within the Democratic Party. He served in the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1967 and then as governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. As a dark-horse candidate not well known outside of Georgia, Carter won the Democratic nomination and narrowly defeated the incumbent Republican Party president Gerald Ford in the 1976 presidential election.
Carter pardoned all Vietnam War draft evaders on his second day in office. He created a national energy policy that included conservation, price control, and new technology. Carter successfully pursued the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, and the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. He also confronted stagflation. His administration established the U.S. Department of Energy and the Department of Education. The end of his presidency was marked by the Iran hostage crisis, an energy crisis, the Three Mile Island accident, the Nicaraguan Revolution, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In response to the invasion, Carter escalated the Cold War by ending ''détente'', imposing a grain embargo against the Soviets, enunciating the Carter Doctrine, and leading the multinational boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. He lost the 1980 presidential election in a landslide to Ronald Reagan, the Republican nominee.
After leaving the presidency, Carter established the Carter Center to promote and expand human rights; in 2002 he received a Nobel Peace Prize for his work related to it. He traveled extensively to conduct peace negotiations, monitor elections, and further the eradication of infectious diseases. Carter is a key figure in the nonprofit housing organization Habitat for Humanity. He has also written numerous books, ranging from political memoirs to poetry, while continuing to comment on global affairs, including two books on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, in which he criticizes Israel's treatment of Palestinians as apartheid. Polls of historians and political scientists generally rank Carter as a below-average president, although both scholars and the public view his post-presidential activities more favorably. At 43 years, Carter's post-presidency is the longest in U.S. history. Provided by Wikipedia
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Keeping faith : memoirs of a president / by Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
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An outdoor journal : adventures and reflections / by Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
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An hour before daylight : memories of a rural boyhood / by Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
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The blood of Abraham : insights into the Middle East / by Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
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White House diary / by Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
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An outdoor journal : adventures and reflections / by Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
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Remarks of President Jimmy Carter at the opening session of the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped. by Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
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The blood of Abraham / by Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
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Outdoor journal, An. by Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
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Why not the best? / by Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
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Keeping faith : memoirs of a president / by Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
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The U.S. course in a changing world / by Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
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Caribbean/Central America / by Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
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U.S. interests and ideals / by Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
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Christmas in Plains : memories / by Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
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A government as good as its people / by Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
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Carter on the arts / by Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
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Negotiation, the alternative to hostility / by Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
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Our endangered values : America's moral crisis / by Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
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Sources of strength : meditations on Scripture for a living faith / by Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
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