Jimmy Carter's life in progress.('Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope' and 'Prophet from Plains: Jimmy Carter and His Legacy')(Book review)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: February 8, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

BEYOND THE WHITE HOUSE: WAGING PEACE, FIGHTING DISEASE, BUILDING HOPE By Jimmy Carter Simon and Schuster, 272 pages, $29.99

PROPHET FROM PLAINS: JIMMY CARTER AND HIS LEGACY By Frye Gaillard University of Georgia Press, 128 pages, $19.95

Historian Douglas Brinkley ended his 1999 book The Unfinished Presidency, about Jimmy Carter's post-White House years, by quoting from the poet Dylan Thomas. "Do not go gentle into that good night,/Old age should burn and rave at close of day ..." Mr. Brinkley believed these lines described Jimmy Carter, whose lifelong sense of calling ...

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