Bibliography of Jimmy Carter

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	Booknotes interview with Jimmy Carter on Always a Reckoning, February 19, 1995, C-SPAN

Books about and authored by Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States (1977–1981).

Books and scholarly articles about Carter

Allen, Gary (1976). Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter. '76 Press. ISBN 0892450061.
Alter, Jonathan (2020). His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Berggren, D. Jason; Rae, Nicol C. (2006). "Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush: Faith, Foreign Policy, and an Evangelical Presidential Style". Presidential Studies Quarterly. 36 (4): 606–632. doi:10.1111/j.1741-5705.2006.02570.x. ISSN 0360-4918.
Bird, Kai (2021). The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter. New York: Crown Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-451-49523-5.
Bourne, Peter G. (1997). Jimmy Carter: A Comprehensive Biography From Plains to Post-Presidency. New York: Scribner. ISBN 0684195437.
Brinkley, Douglas (1996). "The Rising Stock of Jimmy Carter: The "Hands on" Legacy of Our Thirty-ninth President". Diplomatic History. 20 (4): 505–530. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7709.1996.tb00285.x. ISSN 0145-2096. JSTOR 24913317.
——————— (1998). The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's Journey Beyond the White House. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0140276165.
Busch, Andrew E. (2005). Reagan's Victory: The Presidential Election of 1980 and the Rise of the Right. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
Carleton, David, and Michael Stohl. "The foreign policy of human rights: Rhetoric and reality from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan." Human Rights Quarterly 7 (1985): 205–229 online.
Clymer, Kenton (2003). "Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and Cambodia". Diplomatic History. 27 (2): 245–278. doi:10.1111/1467-7709.00349. ISSN 0145-2096.
Dumbrell, John (1995). The Carter Presidency: A Re-Evaluation. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 0719036178.
Eizenstat, Stuart E. (2018). President Carter: The White House Years. New York: Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN 978-1-2501-0455-7. (Although Eizenstat was Carter's domestic affairs advisor, this book is a history of the Carter presidency rather than a memoir)
Fink, Gary M.; Graham, Hugh Davis, eds. (1998). The Carter Presidency: Policy Choices in the Post-New Deal Era. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0700608958.
Flint, Andrew R.; Porter, Joy (March 2005). "Jimmy Carter: The re-emergence of faith-based politics and the abortion rights issue". Presidential Studies Quarterly. 35 (1): 28–51. doi:10.1111/j.1741-5705.2004.00234.x.
Freedman, Robert (2005). "The Religious Right and the Carter Administration". The Historical Journal. 48 (1): 231–260. doi:10.1017/S0018246X04004285. ISSN 0018-246X. S2CID 154791980.
Frisch, Scott A.; Kelly, Sean Q. (2011). Jimmy Carter and the Water Wars: Presidential Influence and the Politics of Pork. Amherst, New York: Cambria Press. ISBN 978-1604977783.
Gillon, Steven M. (1992). The Democrats' Dilemma: Walter F. Mondale and the Liberal Legacy. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231076304.
Glad, Betty (1980). Jimmy Carter: In Search of the Great White House. New York: W. W. Norton. ISBN 039333287X.
————— (2009). An Outsider in the White House: Jimmy Carter, His Advisors, and the Making of American Foreign Policy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0801448158.
Godbold, E. Stanly Jr. (2010). Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: The Georgia Years, 1924–1974. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-977962-8.
————————— (2022). Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: Power and Human Rights, 1975-2020. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-758156-8.
Hahn, Dan F. (1992). "The rhetoric of Jimmy Carter, 1976–1980". In Windt, Theodore; Ingold, Beth (eds.). Essays in Presidential Rhetoric (3rd ed.). Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt. pp. 331–365. ISBN 0840375689.
Hargrove, Erwin C. (1988). Jimmy Carter as President: Leadership and the Politics of the Public Good. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0807124257.
Harris, David (2004). The Crisis: The President, the Prophet, and the Shah – 1979 and the Coming of Militant Islam. Little, Brown and Company.
Jagoda, Barry (2020). Journeys with Jimmy Carter and other Adventures in Media. Virginia Beach: Koehler Books. ISBN 978-1646630332.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2018). Arab-Israeli Diplomacy Under Carter: The US, Israel and the Palestinians. London: I. B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1788310529.
Jones, Charles O. (1988). The Trusteeship Presidency: Jimmy Carter and the United States Congress. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 080711426X.
Jorden, William J. (1984). Panama Odyssey. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0292764693.
Kaufman, Burton I.; Kaufman, Scott (2006). The Presidency of James Earl Carter. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0700614710.
Kaufman, Scott (2008). Plans Unraveled: The Foreign Policy of the Carter Administration. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press. ISBN 978-0875803906.
Kaufman, Diane; Kaufman, Scott (2013). Historical Dictionary of the Carter Era. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0810878228.
Keys, Barbara J. (2014). Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-72603-1.
Robb, Thomas K. (2017). Jimmy Carter and the Anglo-American Special Relationship. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1474432610.
Kucharsky, David (1976). The Man From Plains: The Mind and Spirit of Jimmy Carter. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 0060648910.
Mattson, Kevin (2009). What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President? Jimmy Carter, America's Malaise and the Speech That Should Have Changed the Country. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1596915213.
Mitchell, Nancy (2016). Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race and the Cold War. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0804793858.
Morgan, Iwan (2004). "Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and the New Democratic Economics". The Historical Journal. 47 (4): 1015–1039. doi:10.1017/S0018246X0400408X. ISSN 0018-246X. S2CID 159975563.
Morris, Kenneth Earl (1996). Jimmy Carter, American Moralist. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 0820318620.
Muravchik, Joshua (1986). The Uncertain Crusade: Jimmy Carter and the Dilemmas of Human Rights Policy. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. ISBN 0819151084.
Poe, Steven C. (1992). "Human Rights and Economic Aid Allocation under Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter". American Journal of Political Science. 36 (1): 147–167. doi:10.2307/2111428. ISSN 0092-5853. JSTOR 2111428.
Ribuffo, Leo P. (1989). "God and Jimmy Carter". In M. L. Bradbury and James B. Gilbert (ed.). Transforming Faith: The Sacred and Secular in Modern American History. New York: Greenwood Press. pp. 141–159. ISBN 0313257078.
—————— (1997). "'Malaise' revisited: Jimmy Carter and the crisis of confidence". In John Patrick Diggins (ed.). The Liberal Persuasion: Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and the Challenge of the American Past. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 164–185. ISBN 0691048290.
Roessner, Amber (2020). Jimmy Carter and the Birth of the Marathon Media Campaign. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-7079-3.
Rosenbaum, Herbert D.; Ugrinsky, Alexej, eds. (1993). The Presidency and Domestic Policies of Jimmy Carter. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313288453.
——————————; ———————, eds. (1994). Jimmy Carter: Foreign Policy and Post-Presidential Years. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313288445.
Sarantakes, Nicholas Evan (2011). Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521176668.
Sargent, Daniel J. (2015). A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195395471.
Schram, Martin (1977). Running for President, 1976: The Carter Campaign. New York: Stein and Day. ISBN 0812822455.
Schmitz, David F.; Walker, Vanessa (2004). "Jimmy Carter and the Foreign Policy of Human Rights: the Development of a Post-cold War Foreign Policy". Diplomatic History. 28 (1): 113–143. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7709.2004.00400.x. ISSN 0145-2096.
Smith, Gaddis (1986). Morality, Reason, and Power: American Diplomacy in the Carter Years. New York: Hill and Wang. ISBN 0809070170.
Strieff, Daniel (2015). Jimmy Carter and the Middle East: The Politics of Presidential Diplomacy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1137499462.
Strong, Robert A. (Fall 1986). "Recapturing leadership: The Carter administration and the crisis of confidence". Presidential Studies Quarterly. 16 (3): 636–650.
——————— (2000). Working in the World: Jimmy Carter and the Making of American Foreign Policy. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0807124451.
Talbott, Strobe (1979). Endgame: The Inside Story of Salt II. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 0060142138.
Thornton, Richard C. (1991). The Carter Years: Toward a New Global Order. New York: Paragon House. ISBN 1557788715.
Ward, Jon (2019). Camelot's End: Kennedy vs. Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party. New York: Twelve Books. ISBN 978-1455591381.
White, Theodore H. (1982). America in Search of Itself: The Making of the President, 1956–1980. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 0446370983.
Williams, Daniel K. (2020). The Election of the Evangelical: Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and the Presidential Contest of 1976. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0700629121.
Woodroofe, Louise (2013). "Buried in the Sands of the Ogaden": The United States, the Horn of Africa, and the Demise of Détente. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. ISBN 978-1606351840.
Zelizer, Julian E. (2010). Jimmy Carter: The American Presidents Series: The 39th President, 1977–1981. Times Books. ISBN 978-0-8050-8957-8.

Articles by Carter

Carter, Jimmy (January 5, 2022). "Jimmy Carter: I Fear for Our Democracy". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 14, 2024. Retrieved November 17, 2024.
Carter, Jimmy. "Camp David Accords". Encyclopædia Britannica (Online ed.). Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica. ISSN 1085-9721. Retrieved November 23, 2024.

Books by Carter

Carter, Jimmy (1975). Why Not the Best?. Nashville: Broadman Press. ISBN 978-0-8054-5582-3.
Carter, Jimmy (1977). A Government as Good as Its People. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-22815-6.
Carter, Jimmy. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1977 (1978–1981); annual compilation of all his public documents
Carter, Jimmy (1982). Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President. New York: Bantam Books. ISBN 978-0-553-05023-3.^[1]^[2]
Carter, Jimmy (1984). Negotiation: The Alternative to Hostility. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. ISBN 978-0-86554-137-5.
Carter, Jimmy (1985). The Blood of Abraham: Insights into the Middle East. Chicago: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-1-55728-293-4.
Carter, Rosalynn; Carter, Jimmy (1987). Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-394-55858-5.
Carter, Jimmy (1992). Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age. New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-8129-2079-6.
Carter, Jimmy (1994). An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 978-1-55728-354-2.
Carter, Jimmy (1995). Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation: Revised Edition. London: Puffin. ISBN 978-0-14-037440-7.
Carter, Jimmy (1995). Always a Reckoning, and Other Poems. New York: Times Books. ISBN 978-0-8129-2434-3.
Carter, Amy; Carter, Jimmy (1995). The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer. New York: Times Books. ISBN 978-0-8129-2731-3.
Carter, Jimmy (1996). Living Faith. New York: Times Books. ISBN 978-0-8129-3034-4.
Carter, Jimmy (1997). Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith. New York: Times Books. ISBN 978-0-8129-3236-2.
Carter, Jimmy (1998). The Virtues of Aging. New York: Ballantine Pub. Group. ISBN 978-0-345-42592-8.
Carter, Jimmy (2001). An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-1199-4.
Carter, Jimmy (2001). Christmas in Plains: Memories. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-2715-5.
Carter, Jimmy (2002). The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture: Delivered in Oslo on the 10th of December, 2002. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-5068-9.
Carter, Jimmy (2003). The Hornet's Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-5542-4. A historical novel about the American Revolution, and the first work of fiction written by a U.S. President.^[3]
Carter, Jimmy (2004). Sharing Good Times. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-7068-7.
Carter, Jimmy (2005). Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-8501-8. Won a Grammy Award for best spoken-word album.^[4]
Carter, Jimmy (2006). Faith & Freedom: The Christian Challenge for the World. [London]: Duckworth. ISBN 978-0-7156-3610-7. UK edition of Our Endangered Values.
Carter, Jimmy (2006). Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-8502-5.
Carter, Jimmy (2007). Leading a Worthy Life: Sunday Mornings in Plains: Bible Study with Jimmy Carter. Simon & Schuster Audio. ISBN 978-0-7435-6176-1.
Carter, Jimmy (2007). Measuring Our Success: Sunday Mornings in Plains: Bible Study with Jimmy Carter. Simon & Schuster Audio. ISBN 978-0-7435-6726-8.
Carter, Jimmy (2007). Beyond the White House. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-5880-4.
Carter, Jimmy (2008). A Remarkable Mother. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-6245-0.
Carter, Jimmy (2009). We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4391-4063-5.
Carter, Jimmy (2010). White House Diary. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-28099-4.
Carter, Jimmy; Halliday, Steve (2011). Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations from the 39th President. Grand Rapids: Zondervan. ISBN 978-0-310-33048-6.
Carter, Jimmy (2012). NIV Lessons from Life Bible: Personal Reflections with Jimmy Carter. Grand Rapids, Mich: Zondervan. ISBN 978-0-310-95081-3.
Carter, Jimmy (2014). A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4767-7395-7.
Carter, Jimmy (2015). A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-5011-1563-9.
Carter, Jimmy (2018). Faith: A Journey for All. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Reviews

Kantowicz, Edward R. "Reminiscences of a Fated Presidency: Themes from the Carter Memoirs". Presidential Studies Quarterly 15#4 1986, pp. 651–665. JSTOR 40574415.
Lafeber, Walter. "From confusion to Cold War: The memoirs of the Carter administration". Diplomatic History 8.1 (1984): 1–12 JSTOR 44254241.
Thomas, Norman C. "The Carter Administration Memoirs: A Review Essay". Western Political Quarterly 39.2 (1986): 348–360. JSTOR 448303.

Memoirs by Carter Administration aides and officials

Brzezinski, Zbigniew (1983). Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser, 1977 - 1981. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux. ISBN 9780374236632.
Califano Jr., Joseph A. (1981). Governing America. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1416552116.
Carter, Rosalynn (1984). First Lady from Plains. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-1557283559.
Jagoda, Barry (2020). Journeys with Jimmy Carter and other Adventures in Media. San Diego: Koehler Books. ISBN 978-1646630332.
Jordan, Hamilton (1982). Crisis: The Last Year of the Carter Presidency. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. ISBN 978-0399127380.
Lance, Bert; Gilbert, Bill (1991). The Truth of the Matter: My Life in and Out of Politics. New York: Summit Books. ISBN 978-0671690274.
Mondale, Walter F.; Hage, David (2010). The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics. Scribner: New York. ISBN 978-0816691661.
Powell, Jody (1984). The Other Side of the Story. New York: William Morrow & Co. ISBN 978-0688036461.
Thompson, Kenneth W., ed. (1990). The Carter Presidency: Fourteen Intimate Perspectives of Jimmy Carter. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. ISBN 978-0819178138.
Turner, Stansfield (1985). Secrecy and Democracy: The CIA in Transition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0395355732.
Vance, Cyrus R. (1983). Hard Choices: Critical Years in America's Foreign Policy. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0671443399.

References

^ "Jimmy Carter – 39th President of the United States and Founder of The Carter Center", The Carter Center.
^ "Keeping the Faith", by Terence Smith, The New York Times, Book Review section, 7 Nov. 1982.
^ "The Top 10 Books Written by Our Presidents". CBS New York. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
^ GRAMMY.com

External links

[1] "Jimmy Carter – 39th President of the United States and Founder of The Carter Center", The Carter Center.

[2] "Keeping the Faith", by Terence Smith, The New York Times, Book Review section, 7 Nov. 1982.

[3] "The Top 10 Books Written by Our Presidents". CBS New York. Retrieved February 21, 2017.

[4] GRAMMY.com

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Jimmy Carter
39th President of the United States (1977–1981) 76th Governor of Georgia (1971–1975) Georgia State Senator (1963–1967)
Presidency (timeline)	Transition Inauguration Timeline 1977 1978 1979 1980 January 1981 Political positions Judicial appointments controversies Executive Actions Executive Order 12036 Executive Order 12086 Executive Order 12148 Executive Order 12170 Executive Order 12172 Carter bonds Rabbit incident Catoctin Mountain Park Run Carter Doctrine Camp David Accords Egypt–Israel peace treaty Torrijos–Carter Treaties Iran hostage crisis Operation Eagle Claw Canadian Caper Engagement with Ruhollah Khomeini 1979 oil crisis Support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War Diplomatic relations with China Goldwater v. Carter Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 Senior Executive Service Strategic Arms Limitation Talks International trips 1980 Summer Olympics boycott Cannabis policy Community Reinvestment Act Airline Deregulation Act Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 Clean Water Act of 1977 Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act Federal Reserve Reform Act of 1977 Electronic Fund Transfer Act Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Financial Institutions Regulatory and Interest Rate Control Act of 1978 Right to Financial Privacy Act Humphrey–Hawkins Full Employment Act Superfund Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 Solar power at the White House Three Mile Island accident Presidential transition of Ronald Reagan
Speeches	Moral Equivalent of War Island of Stability A Crisis of Confidence State of the Union Addresses 1978 1979 1980 1981
Elections	Georgia gubernatorial elections 1966 1970 Presidential campaigns 1976 1980 Democratic Party presidential primaries 1976 1980 Democratic National Conventions 1972 1976 1980 Presidential debates 1976 1980 Presidential elections 1976 1980
Post-presidency	Carter Center Presidential Library and Museum Habitat for Humanity Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project The Elders Jimmy Carter National Historical Park Jimmy Carter House Nairobi Agreement, 1999 One America Appeal Continuity of Government Commission Death and state funeral
	Everything to Gain (1987) The Hornet's Nest (2003) Our Endangered Values (2006) Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid (2006) reaction and commentary Beyond the White House (2007) We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land (2009) White House Diary (2010) A Call to Action (2014) A Full Life (2015)
Awards and honors	Nobel Peace Prize Presidential Medal of Freedom Freedom of the City Silver Buffalo Award Philadelphia Liberty Medal United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights Hoover Medal Christopher Award Carter–Menil Human Rights Prize Grammy Award
Legacy	Jimmy Carter Peanut Statue (1976) USS Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter National Historical Park (1987) Georgia State Capitol statue (1994)
Related	Plains, Georgia Birthplace Home Mary Prince (nanny) UFO incident Jimmy Carter (2002 television documentary) Man from Plains (2007 documentary) Eradication of dracunculiasis "Mush from the Wimp"
Family	Rosalynn Carter (wife) Jack Carter (son) Amy Carter (daughter) Jason Carter (grandson) James Earl Carter Sr. (father) Lillian Gordy Carter (mother) Gloria Carter Spann (sister) Ruth Carter Stapleton (sister) Billy Carter (brother) Emily Dolvin (aunt) Hugh Carter (cousin)
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