Bibliography of Jimmy Carter

Summary

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

Books and scholarly articles about Carter edit

  • Allen, Gary (1976). Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter. '76 Press. ISBN 978-0-89245-006-0.
  • Andrew, Christopher M. (1995). For the President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush (1st ed.). New York: HarperCollinsPublishers. pp. 425–456. ISBN 978-0060921781.
  • 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. Crown. ISBN 978-0-451-49523-5.
  • Bourne, Peter G. (1997). Jimmy Carter: A Comprehensive Biography From Plains to Post-Presidency. New York: Scribner. ISBN 978-0-684-19543-8.
  • 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.
  • Brinkley, Douglas (1999). The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's journey beyond the White House. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-027616-9.
  • Busch, Andrew E. (2005). Reagan's Victory: The Presidential Election of 1980 and the Rise of the Right. 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 (2nd ed.). Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-4693-3.
  • 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 978-0-7006-0895-9.
  • 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.
  • Gillon, Steven M. (1992). The Democrats' Dilemma: Walter F. Mondale and the Liberal Legacy. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-07630-2.
  • Glad, Betty. An outsider in the White House: Jimmy Carter, his advisors, and the making of American foreign policy (Cornell University Press, 2009).
  • Glad, Betty (1980). Jimmy Carter: In Search of the Great White House. New York: W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-07527-4.
  • Godbold, E. Stanly Jr. (2010). Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: The Georgia Years, 1924–1974. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-977962-8.
  • Godbold, E. Stanly Jr. (2022). Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: Power and Human Rights, 1975-2020. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-758156-8.
  • Green, Michael J. By more than providence: Grand strategy and American power in the Asia Pacific since 1783 (Columbia UP, 2017) pp 363–386. online
  • 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 978-0-8403-7568-1.
  • Hargrove, Erwin C. (1988). Jimmy Carter as President: Leadership and the Politics of the Public Good. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-1499-5.
  • Harris, David (2004). The Crisis: the President, the Prophet, and the Shah – 1979 and the Coming of Militant Islam. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-32394-9.
  • Jones, Charles O. (1988). The Trusteeship Presidency: Jimmy Carter and the United States Congress. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-1426-1.
  • Jorden, William J. (1984). Panama Odyssey. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-76469-9.
  • Kaufman, Burton I.; Kaufman, Scott (2006). The Presidency of James Earl Carter (2nd ed.). University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1471-4.
  • Kaufman, Diane, and Scott Kaufman. Historical Dictionary of the Carter Era (Scarecrow, 2013) 301 pp
  • Keys, Barbara J. (2014). Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-72603-1.
  • Kucharsky, David (1976). The Man From Plains: The Mind and Spirit of Jimmy Carter. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-06-064891-6.
  • Mattson, Kevin (2010). What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-60819-206-9.
  • Mitchell, Nancy (2016). Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race and the Cold War. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804793858.
  • 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 9780820318622.
  • 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 978-0-313-25707-0.
  • Ribuffo, Leo P. (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 978-0-691-04829-1.
  • Roessner, Amber (2020). Jimmy Carter and the Birth of the Marathon Media Campaign. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-7079-3.
  • Rosenbaum, Herbert D. and Alexej Ugrinsky, eds. Jimmy Carter: Foreign Policy and Post-Presidential Years (1994) 532pp; essays by experts online, 532pp
  • Rosenbaum, Herbert D. and Alexej Ugrinsky, eds. The Presidency and Domestic Policies of Jimmy Carter (1994) 876pp; essays by experts online
  • Sarantakes, Nicholas Evan. Dropping the torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic boycott, and the Cold War (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
  • Schram, Martin (1977). Running for President, 1976: The Carter Campaign. New York: Stein and Day. ISBN 978-0-8128-2245-8.
  • 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.
  • Strong, Robert A. (Fall 1986). "Recapturing leadership: The Carter administration and the crisis of confidence". Presidential Studies Quarterly. 16 (3): 636–650.
  • Strong, Robert A. (2000). Working in the World: Jimmy Carter and the Making of American Foreign Policy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-2445-1.
  • "Topics; Thermostatic Legacy". The New York Times. January 1, 1981. Section 1, Page 18, Column 1.
  • Vogel, Steve (May 4, 2000). "Remembering Failed Iranian Mission". Washington Post.
  • 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 978-0-06-039007-5.
  • Williams, Daniel K. The Election of the Evangelical: Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and the Presidential Contest of 1976 (University Press of Kansas, 2020) online review
  • Witcover, Jules (1977). Marathon: The Pursuit of the Presidency, 1972–1976. New York: Viking Press. ISBN 978-0-670-45461-7.
  • Zelizer, Julian E. (2010). Jimmy Carter. Times Books. ISBN 978-0-8050-8957-8.

Books by Carter edit

  • 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 edit

  • 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 edit

  • 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.
  • 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 edit

  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 21 February 2017.
  4. ^ GRAMMY.com

External links edit

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