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  • Peace or Apartheid in Palestine
    by Jimmy Carter
    ISBN 0786294086 (0-7862-9408-6)
    Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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    The crowning achievement of Jimmy Carter's presidency was the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, and he has continued his public and private diplomacy ever since, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his decades of work for peace, human rights, and international development. He has been a tireless author since then as well, writing bestselling books on his childhood, his faith, and American history and politics, but in Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, he has returned to the Middle East and to the question of Israel's peace with its neighbors--in particular, how Israeli sovereignty and security can coexist permanently and peacefully with Palestinian nationhood.

    It's a rare honor to ask questions of a former president, and we are grateful that President Carter was able to take the time in between his work with his wife, Rosalynn, for the Carter Center and Habitat for Humanity and his many writing projects to speak with us about his hopes for the region and his thoughts on the book.

    A big thank you to President Carter for granting our request for an interview.

    Amazon.com's interview with US President Jimmy Carter

    Q: What has been the importance of your own faith in your continued interest in peace in the Middle East?
    A: As a Christian, I worship the Prince of Peace. One of my preeminent commitments has been to bring peace to the people who live in the Holy Land. I made my best efforts as president and still have this as a high priority.

    Q: A common theme in your years of Middle East diplomacy has been that leaders on both sides have often been more open to discussion and change in private than in public. Do you think that's still the case?
    A: Yes. This is why private and intense negotiations can be successful. More accurately, however, my premise has been that the general public (Jewish, Christian, and Muslim) are more eager for peace than their political leaders. For instance, a recent poll done by the Hebrew University in Jerusalem showed that 58% of Israelis and 81% of the Palestinians favor a comprehensive settlement similar to the Roadmap for Peace or the Saudi proposal adopted by all 23 Arab nations and recently promoted by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Tragically, there have been no substantive peace talks during the past six years.

    Q: How have the war in Iraq and the increased strength of Iran (and the declarations of their leaders against Israel) changed the conditions of the Israel-Palestine question?
    A: Other existing or threatened conflicts in the region greatly increase the importance of Israel's having peace agreements with its neighbors, to minimize overall Arab animosity toward both Israel and the United States and reduce the threat of a broader conflict.

    Q: Your use of the term "apartheid" has been a lightning rod in the response to your book. Could you explain your choice? Were you surprised by the reaction?
    A: The book is about Palestine, the occupied territories, and not about Israel. Forced segregation in the West Bank and terrible oppression of the Palestinians create a situation accurately described by the word. I made it plain in the text that this abuse is not based on racism, but on the desire of a minority of Israelis to confiscate and colonize Palestinian land. This violates the basic humanitarian premises on which the nation of Israel was founded. My surprise is that most critics of the book have ignored the facts about Palestinian persecution and its proposals for future peace and resorted to personal attacks on the author. No one could visit the occupied territories and deny that the book is accurate.

    Q: You write in the book that "the peace process does not have a life of its own; it is not self-sustaining." What would you recommend that the next American president do to revive it?
    A: I would not want to wait two more years. It is encouraging that President George W. Bush has announced that peace in the Holy Land will be a high priority for his administration during the next two years. On her January trip to the region, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has called for early U.S.-Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. She has recommended the 2002 offer of the Arab nations as a foundation for peace: full recognition of Israel based on a return to its internationally recognized borders. This offer is compatible with official U.S. Government policy, previous agreements approved by Israeli governments in 1978 and 1993, and with the International Quartet's "roadmap for peace." My book proposes that, through negotiated land swaps, this "green line" border be modified to permit a substantial number of Israelis settlers to remain in Palestine. With strong U.S. pressure, backed by the U.N., Russia, and the European Community, Israelis and Palestinians would have to come to the negotiating table.

    1/18/2007
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  • Mollenhoff, Clark R.: The President Who Failed: Carter Out of Control
    The President Who Failed: Carter Out of Control
    by Clark R. Mollenhoff
    ISBN 0029217504 (0-02-921750-4)
    Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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  • Tyrrell, R. Emmett: Public Nuisances
    Public Nuisances
    by R. Emmett Tyrrell
    ISBN 0465067727 (0-465-06772-7)
    Hardcover, Basic Books

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  • Parry, Robert: Secrecy and Privilege: Rise Of The Bush Dynasty From Watergate To Iraq
    Secrecy and Privilege: Rise Of The Bush Dynasty From Watergate To Iraq
    by Robert Parry
    ISBN 1893517012 (1-893517-01-2)
    Softcover, Media Consortium

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  • Shadow
    by Bob Woodward
    ISBN 0684852632 (0-684-85263-2)
    Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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    There are two ways to look at this bestseller by Watergate scoopmeister Woodward. First, it's an original take on Clinton's sex scandal, framing it as the latest consequence of Nixon's assault on the U.S. political system. Woodward sketches each president's tussles with scandal managing after Watergate permanently turned up the press heat on the White House. Ford lies about a meeting concerning a potential deal to pardon Nixon, but remains convinced he did nothing wrong. Carter's pious advocacy of truth telling backfires when he's confronted with conundrums involving his pal Bert Lance, the fallout from CIA-provided hookers, and cash for King Hussein. Reagan's men try to make him understand the lies and shocking wrongness of the Iran-Contra debacle, but he simply, stubbornly doesn't get it. And by the time prosecutors interview Reagan in 1992, he's so ill he can't remember his own oldest friends and advisers.

    All provocative stuff, some of it new. But most readers will flip to the book's second half, a fly-on-the-wall account of the backroom mud-wrestling in both the Clinton and Starr camps in the Monicagate morass. It's a trove of racy facts (mostly from anonymous sources). We read that Clinton called Nixon a "war criminal," yet tried to minimize Watergate in his Nixon eulogy, that he disgusted Ford and Jack Nicklaus by cheating while golfing with them, and that he kept falsely assuring aides, "I'm retired! [as an adulterer]." We hear Hillary's alleged words of agony and see the pain on Bill's face after Chelsea reads The Starr Report on the Internet. Starr comes off like RoboCop without the human side. Woodward calls him "pathetic and unwise" in rejecting his staff's urgent demand not to send the lurid details of presidential sex to Congress. "I love the narrative!" Starr weirdly exulted, according to Woodward's new Deep Throat (or Throats). Since Monica was interrogated at Starr's mother-in-law's apartment, which he called "Grandma's place," ethics expert Sam Dash suggested they call it "Operation Red Riding Hood." What sharp teeth everyone in this book has!

    To tell the truth, Woodward doesn't really knit together 25 years' worth of scandals into a single strong narrative. But the Clinton part is the closest thing yet to what we all crave: a tale of Monicagate with some of the flavor of a John Grisham thriller. --Tim Appelo [via]

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  • Carter, Jimmy: Sharing Good Times
    Sharing Good Times
    by Jimmy Carter
    ISBN 0743270681 (0-7432-7068-1)
    Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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  • Wilkinson, Daniel: Silence On The Mountain: Stories Of Terror, Betrayal, And Forgetting In Guatemala
    Silence On The Mountain: Stories Of Terror, Betrayal, And Forgetting In Guatemala
    by Daniel Wilkinson
    ISBN 0822333686 (0-8223-3368-6)
    Softcover, Duke Univ Pr

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  • Carter, Jimmy: Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith
    Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith
    by Jimmy Carter
    ISBN 1578562902 (1-57856-290-2)
    Softcover, Waterbrook Pr

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    For decades, President Jimmy Carter has been an avid student and teacher of the Bible.  In recent years, the adult Sunday school classes he leads at his hometown Baptist church have become famous the world over.  As The New York Times put it, "These weekly sessions...are remarkable for the ability of regular folks to walk in, grab a seat and exchange views with the 39th President of the United States.  But they are also remarkable for what Mr. Carter has to say."



    Now, this most admired American has selected fifty-two of his favorite Bible meditations from these Sunday gatherings to share with anyone who is searching for new faith...or fuller understanding of a lifelong creed.  The result is this remarkable book, Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith.



    For Jimmy Carter, as for countless others, Holy Scripture has been a constant companion, a source of inspiration and strength in both good times and bad.  A lifetime of devoted Bible reading has taught him that the truths of Scripture have the power to enrich and transform our daily lives in unexpected ways.  As President Carter writes, "The Bible offers concrete guidance for overcoming our weaknesses and striving toward the transcendent life for which we were created."



    Sources of Strength is Jimmy Carter's invitation to you to share in the spiritual bounty of Scripture and joyous, more fulfilling life that a living faith makes possible.



    Also Available As An Audio Book



    "I think the audio version brings a human touch..It permits me to communicate in a much more intimate fashion."
               --President Jimmy Carter [via]

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  • Carter, Jimmy: Talking Peace
    Talking Peace
    by Jimmy Carter
    ISBN 0525449590 (0-525-44959-0)
    Hardcover, Penguin USA

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  • Carter, Jimmy: Talking Peace : A Vision for the Next Generation
    Talking Peace : A Vision for the Next Generation
    by Jimmy Carter
    ISBN 014037440X (0-14-037440-X)
    Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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  • Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age
    by Jimmy Carter
    ISBN 0812922999 (0-8129-2299-9)
    Softcover, Times Books

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    The former president's personal tale of political intrigue and social conflict during his first campaign for public office. Iluminates the origins of his commitment to human rights and bears further witness to the accomplishments of an extraordinary man. [via]

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  • Chomsky, Noam: Turning the Tide: The Us & Latin America
    Turning the Tide: The Us & Latin America
    by Noam Chomsky
    ISBN 0920057918 (0-920057-91-8)
    Softcover, Black Rose Books Ltd

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  • Chomsky, Noam: Turning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central American and the Struggle for Peace
    Turning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central American and the Struggle for Peace
    by Noam Chomsky
    ISBN 0896082660 (0-89608-266-0)
    Softcover, South End Pr

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  • The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's Journey Beyond the White House
    by Douglas Brinkley
    ISBN 0140276165 (0-14-027616-5)
    Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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    Jimmy Carter isn't the first American president to become more popular after leaving the Oval Office than when he served in it; even Richard Nixon managed a semi-rehabilitation in the post-Watergate years. Yet perhaps no ex-president has reversed his fortunes so completely as Carter, whose approval rating has done nothing but improve since he lost his 1980 reelection bid. Many Americans admire Carter for his work building homes in the United States with the group Habitat for Humanity, but the 39th president is known and respected throughout the world for attempting to negotiate peace in trouble spots such as Haiti, North Korea, and the Middle East. "Carter," writes Douglas Brinkley, "has become a true citizen of the world." Noteworthy sections of this unauthorized biography (which benefits from lengthy interviews with its subject) include the story of how Carter worked relentlessly to undermine President Bush in the days leading up to the Persian Gulf War, as well as Carter's difficult relations with President Clinton. Also, Brinkley appreciates, and treats seriously, Carter's religious faith in a way many previous analysts have not. An excellent portrait of a complicated man. --John J. Miller [via]

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  • Why Not the Best?
    by Jimmy Carter
    ISBN 1557284180 (1-55728-418-0)
    Softcover, Univ of Arkansas Pr

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    When a little-known former Southern Governor named Jimmy Carter decided to seek the Presidency, he wrote, "Why Not the Best?" as a means of letting voters know who he was and his sense of values. The title comes from a question Admiral Rickover asked him during a job interview, following his graduation from the Naval Academy. "Did you do your best?" Rickover asked. Carter initially answered "yes sir" but after some thought said, "no sir, I didn't always do my best." Describing the scene years later, Carter writes, "He asked one final question which I have never been able to forget-or to answer. He said, "Why not?" [via]

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  • Adler, Bill: The Wit and Wisdom of Jimmy Carter
    The Wit and Wisdom of Jimmy Carter
    by Bill Adler, Jimmy Carter
    ISBN 080650563X (0-8065-0563-X)
    Hardcover, Book Sales

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