Descripción
Libro Jimmy Carter. A full life. Sinopsis libro, reseña libro. In his major New York Times bestseller, Jimmy Carter looks back from ninety years of age and «reveals private thoughts and recollections over a fascinating career as businessman, politician, evangelist, and humanitarian» (Booklist).
At ninety, Jimmy Carter reflects on his public and private life with a frankness that is disarming. He adds detail and emotion about his youth in rural Georgia that he described in his magnificent An Hour Before Daylight. He writes about racism and the isolation of the Carters. He describes the brutality of the hazing regimen at Annapolis, and how he nearly lost his life twice serving on submarines and his amazing interview with Admiral Rickover. He describes the profound influence his mother had on him, and how he admired his father even though he didn’t emulate him. He admits that he decided to quit the Navy and later enter politics without consulting his wife, Rosalynn, and how appalled he is in retrospect.
In his «warm and detailed memoir» (Los Angeles Times), Carter tells what he is proud of and what he might do differently. He discusses his regret at losing his re-election, but how he and Rosalynn pushed on and made a new life and second and third rewarding careers. He is frank about the presidents who have succeeded him, world leaders, and his passions for the causes he cares most about, particularly the condition of women and the deprived people of the developing world. Libro Jimmy Carter. A full life.
Anderson –
I certainly didn’t think I’d be reading this during the week of the President’s diagnosis, let alone finishing it on the day of an amazing press conference. For the book, I’ll say this: read the beginning to understand an America long gone. Read the rest to understand the America that might have been, had we not taken the road of ‘trickle down’ and false patriotism. Carter? He kept the peace, obeyed the law, told the truth . . . to the end. A full life, that has been a gift to us all.