Dina Alvarado
10 March 2014
Jimmy Carter Bibliography
Carter, Jimmy. An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
In Carter’s book, An Hour Before Daylight, the former president focuses on his childhood in rural Georgia, where his father employed hundreds of black sharecroppers despite lacking plumbing and electricity. It takes place in the 1930’s, so it delves deep into both the Great Depression and the Jim Crow South, dealing both with farm life and race relations.
As most of my work deals with Jimmy Carter during his presidency, as most credible information available on Carter is about this period in his life, this memoir, which is written by Carter himself, provides an excellent look into his
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More importantly, the Iranian hostage crisis and this statement is the most trenchant event in Carter’s career as president, so this speech is critical to my research.
Crespino, Joseph and Asher Smith. "African American Civil Rights and Conservative Mobilization in the Jimmy Carter Years." In Winning While Losing: Civil Rights, the Conservative Movement, and the Presidency from Nixon to Obama, edited by Derrick E. White and Kenneth Osgood. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013.
Crespino and Smith assert that Jimmy Carter’s fight for African-American civil rights did not start during his presidency, whose anti-segregationist speech in 1971, five years before his ascension into the Oval Office. As a president, he remained more in the middle-ground, despite avid support of the use of buses to desegregate schools but a strong rejection of racial quotas. Growing tension between supporters of civil rights for minorities and those against it brought a different level of difficulty to the presidency of
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This ties in with the topics of segregation and racial relations in Carter’s childhood memoirs, showing the effects of his upbringing in the rural South.
Gaillard, Frye. Prophet from Plains: Jimmy Carter and his Legacy. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007.
Gaillard looks both at the highlights of Jimmy Carter’s presidency, such as with the Iranian Crisis, Camp David, etc., as well as Carter’s successes post-presidency, such as with the Carter Center. With roughly 130 pages, Gaillard makes the assertion that Jimmy Carter’s best work was down outside of the Oval Office, and he provides evidence as to why through specified chapters.
Gaillard’s book is unique to my research because, unlike the others, it focuses more on Carter’s life after his presidency, which is what the majority of books tend to focus on. It does follow the trend of Carter’s integrity and morality, which was critical to who Carter was as a person. However, it does seem to be biased towards
Jimmy Carter says looking back they were very poor by today’s standards. His dad owned a store on the main street in plains, owned his farm, did some teaching and was very involved in the community. His mom was a nurse and would often help people who were sick and needed medical attention. She delivered many babies and helped everyone regardless of their color which in that time was very unusual. His father always referred to himself as fair but Jimmy Carter thought he still kept racial divide a part of his
Killing Reagan is a book written by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. The book’s focus is to take readers behind the scenes, through the life and times of Ronald Reagan. From his Hollywood days to his days in presidency, near-death experience, and the nearly impossible obstacles he had to overcome in order to carry out the duties as a man and as President of the United States. The authors wanted to create a portrait of a “great man operating in violent times”, and that they did.
In 1955, C. Vann Woodward published the first edition of his book, The Strange Career of Jim Crow. The book garnered immediate recognition and success with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. eventually calling it, “the historical Bible of the civil rights movement.” An endorsement like this one from such a prominent and respect figure in American history makes one wonder if they will find anything in the book to criticize or any faults to point out. However, with two subsequent editions of the book, one in August 1965 and another in October 1973—each adding new chapters as the Civil Rights movement progressed—one wonders if Dr. King’s assessment still holds up, if indeed The Strange Career of Jim Crow is still the historical bible of the civil rights movement. In addition, one questions the objectivity of the book considering that it gained endorsements from figures who were promoting a cause and because Woodward had also promoted that same cause.
At the time of Jimmy Carter's presidency, he was often perceived as an unsatisfactory president, but today is associated with some of the exceptional ex-presidents. His accomplishments drew interest from the Nobel Committee, who would ultimately award him the Nobel Peace Prize. Jimmy Carter’s background, actions, and legacy, assisted him in winning the prestigious award.
Works Cited "American President Ronald Wilson Reagan: Impact and Legacy." Miller Center. University of Virginia, n.d. -. Web. The Web.
For decades, U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East had depended on a friendly government in Iran. The newly appointed leader, the shah of Iran, began Westernizing the country and taking away power from the Ayatollah, powerful religious leaders. The United States poured millions of dollars into Iran’s economy and the shah’s armed forces, overlooking the rampant corruption in government and well-organized opposition. By early 1979, the Ayatollah had murdered the Shah and taken back power of the government. A group of students who took the American embassy hostage on November 4th, 1979, turned the embassy over to the religious leaders. Carter knew he must take action in order to regain the American embassy and the hostages, but with all of the military cutbacks, the rescue attempt was a complete failure and embarrassment. It took the United States 444 days to rescue the hostages. This was the final straw for many Americans, and enough to push them to the “right” side of the political spectrum, Republican.
Younge, Gary. "America dreaming: the horrors of segregation bound the US civil rights movement together. Fifty years on from Martin Luther King's great speech, inequality persists--but in subtler ways." New Statesman [1996] 23 Aug. 2013: 20+. Student Resources in Context. Web. 28 Jan. 2014.
http://www.cartercenter.org/news/experts/jimmy_carter.html, Revised 2/22/2011 by Steven H. Hochman, © 2011 The Carter Center. All Rights Reserved, accessed May 23, 2011
Lasky, Victor. (1979). Jimmy Carter the Man & the Myth. New York: Richard Marek Publishers
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2004. Romance, Joseph. Political Science 6 class lectures. Drew University, Summer 2004.
4. The Power of the Modern Presidency, Erwin C. Hargrove. Alfred A. Knopf, INC 1974, pg. 304.
I graduated high school with two of Jimmy Carter’s great nieces. Roslyn came alone, except for the secret service, to our graduation because Uncle Jimmy was not feeling well. Jimmy Carter is a great Christian man and humanitarian. He built a distinguished career as a diplomat, humanitarian and author, pursuing conflict resolution in countries around the globe. His core values have always driven him. Carter accomplished the Panama Canal treaty and the Camp David Accords which brought peace between Israel and Egypt. However, I disagree that he was a great president, and in my opinion, not even a good one. Specifically, he was the least successful president in foreign policy. Carter wanted to refocus America’s foreign policy on the promotion of
President Reagan, at the time in the beginnings of his second term, had successfully maintained overall a high approval rating with the American people. He had won their trust and respect by being quite relatable to the average citizen (Cannon). He had planned that evening to give his State of the Union address, but instead postponed it. The tragedy that had unfolded just hours earlier demanded his complete attention (Eidenmuller 29).
The late 20th century was a very turbulent time in American history. In 1976, Jimmy Carter was elected to the presidency, and he had many goals to help better America. However, on November 4th, 1979, a group of radical students seized the United States’ embassy in Tehran, Iran. This completely altered the course of American history and relations with the Middle East. This crisis had many impacts on the United States. It caused the Energy Crisis which in turn caused the Recession of 1979. The Iran Hostage Crisis also had political consequences for President Carter. It was a major factor that contributed to him losing the election of 1980 to Ronald Reagan. Additionally, this crisis led to many instances of racial discrimination toward Iranian-Americans and Iranian immigrants. Even after the Hostage Crisis was resolved, the bad blood between the two countries continued; the United States helped Iraq in the war against Iran, and the Iranians backed a second hostage situation in Lebanon. The Iran Hostage Crisis was a very important event that impacted America in many ways and destroyed our relationship with Iran. The consequences of this event are still felt today and continue to our foreign policies toward Iran.
Lowi, Theodore J. (1985). The personal President: Power invested promise unfulfilled. Ithaca, New York: Cornell