Bibliography of Jimmy Carter

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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 0-89245-006-1.
Alter, Jonathan (2020). His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Auten, Brian J. (2008). Carter's Conversion: The Hardening of American Defense Policy. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0826266491.
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 0-684-19543-7.
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 0-14-027616-5.
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 0-7190-3617-8.
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 0-7006-0895-8.
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 978-1-60497-778-3.
Gillon, Steven M. (1992). The Democrats' Dilemma: Walter F. Mondale and the Liberal Legacy. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-07630-4.
Glad, Betty (1980). Jimmy Carter: In Search of the Great White House. New York: W. W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-33287-X.
————— (2009). An Outsider in the White House: Jimmy Carter, His Advisors, and the Making of American Foreign Policy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-4815-7.
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 0-8403-7568-9.
Hargrove, Erwin C. (1988). Jimmy Carter as President: Leadership and the Politics of the Public Good. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-2425-7.
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 978-1-64663-033-2.
Jensehaugen, Jørgen (2018). Arab-Israeli Diplomacy Under Carter: The US, Israel and the Palestinians. London: I. B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-78831-052-9.
Jones, Charles O. (1988). The Trusteeship Presidency: Jimmy Carter and the United States Congress. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-1426-X.
Jorden, William J. (1984). Panama Odyssey. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-76469-3.
Kaufman, Burton I.; Kaufman, Scott (2006). The Presidency of James Earl Carter. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0-7006-1471-0.
Kaufman, Scott (2008). Plans Unraveled: The Foreign Policy of the Carter Administration. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press. ISBN 978-0-87580-390-6.
Kaufman, Diane; Kaufman, Scott (2013). Historical Dictionary of the Carter Era. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7822-8.
Keefer, Edward C., ed. (2017). Harold Brown: Offsetting the Soviet Military Challenge, 1977-1981. Washington, DC: Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense. ISBN 978-0160937552.
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 978-1-4744-3261-0.
Kucharsky, David (1976). The Man From Plains: The Mind and Spirit of Jimmy Carter. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 0-06-064891-0.
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 978-1-59691-521-3.
Mitchell, Nancy (2016). Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race and the Cold War. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-9385-8.
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 0-8203-1862-0.
Muravchik, Joshua (1986). The Uncertain Crusade: Jimmy Carter and the Dilemmas of Human Rights Policy. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. ISBN 0-8191-5108-4.
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 0-313-25707-8.
—————— (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 0-691-04829-0.
Robins, Glenn (2024). A Debt of Gratitude: How Jimmy Carter Put Viet Nam Veterans' Issues on the National Agenda. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
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 0-313-28845-3.
——————————; ———————, eds. (1994). Jimmy Carter: Foreign Policy and Post-Presidential Years. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-28844-5.
Sarantakes, Nicholas Evan (2011). Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-17666-8.
Sargent, Daniel J. (2015). A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-539547-1.
Schram, Martin (1977). Running for President, 1976: The Carter Campaign. New York: Stein and Day. ISBN 0-8128-2245-5.
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 0-8090-7017-0.
Strieff, Daniel (2015). Jimmy Carter and the Middle East: The Politics of Presidential Diplomacy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-49946-2.
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 0-8071-2445-1.
Talbott, Strobe (1979). Endgame: The Inside Story of Salt II. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 0-06-014213-8.
Thornton, Richard C. (1991). The Carter Years: Toward a New Global Order. New York: Paragon House. ISBN 1-55778-871-5.
Ward, Jon (2019). Camelot's End: Kennedy vs. Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party. New York: Twelve Books. ISBN 978-1-4555-9138-1.
White, Theodore H. (1982). America in Search of Itself: The Making of the President, 1956–1980. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 0-446-37098-3.
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 978-0-7006-2912-1.
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 978-1-60635-184-0.
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, Inc. ISSN 1085-9721. OCLC 33663660. 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 & 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 and Giroux. ISBN 0374236631.
Califano, Joseph A. Jr. (1981). Governing America. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-5211-6.
Carter, Rosalynn (1984). First Lady from Plains. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 5550054604.
Gardner, Richard N. (2005). Mission Italy: On the Front Lines of the Cold War. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0742539989.
Jagoda, Barry (2020). Journeys with Jimmy Carter and other Adventures in Media. San Diego: Koehler Books. ISBN 978-1-64663-033-2.
Jordan, Hamilton (1982). Crisis: The Last Year of the Carter Presidency. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. ISBN 0399127380.
Lance, Bert; Gilbert, Bill (1991). The Truth of the Matter: My Life in and Out of Politics. New York: Summit Books. ISBN 978-0-671-69027-4.
Mondale, Walter F.; Hage, David (2010). The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics. Scribner: New York. ISBN 978-0-8166-9166-1.
Powell, Jody (1984). The Other Side of the Story. New York: William Morrow & Co. ISBN 978-0-688-03646-1.
Thompson, Kenneth W., ed. (1990). The Carter Presidency: Fourteen Intimate Perspectives of Jimmy Carter. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. ISBN 978-0-8191-7813-8.
Turner, Stansfield (1985). Secrecy and Democracy: The CIA in Transition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-395-35573-2.
Vance, Cyrus R. (1983). Hard Choices: Critical Years in America's Foreign Policy. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-44339-9.

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