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James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924), American politician and statesman, was the 39th President of the United States (1977–1981), and 83rd (1971–1975) Governor of Georgia.

1 Presidency
2 Post-Presidency
3 Bibliography
4 External links

Presidency

Carter's presidency was marked by a period of American supremacy being challenged abroad and economic recession and stagflation striking at home. In the midst of the 1980 campaign, a pro-U.S. monarchy was toppled by the 1979 Iranian Revolution and dozens of American hostages were taken inside the American embassy by Islamic fundamentalist revolutionaries after Carter gave sanctuary to exiled dictator Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. With the international outrage at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan later the same year, Carter was rendered impotent, as America saw its influence declining abroad. Inflation and interest rates reached their highest levels since World War II as the administration freed domestic oil prices in response to rising prices from OPEC. The Misery Index, Carter's own invention of economic well-being, rose 50% in four years. Despite Carter's own Democratic Party controlling both houses of Congress, and the White House he failed to reform the tax system, and to reduce the size of the government bureaucracy, as promised during the 1976 campaign, or to pass the Martin Luther King holiday.

The many problems during Carter's presidency and the fact that he failed to deal with them decisively, not only made him an unpopular president and permanently damage the reputation of the Democratic Party with regard to military matters, it also contributed to his landslide re-election defeat. He was defeated in the 1980 presidential election by Ronald Reagan by nearly ten percentage points. During that election Republicans also gained control of the Senate for the first time in twenty-five years as a result of the country's anger toward Democrats because of Carter's failures. The electoral college vote was a landslide, with 489 votes (representing 44 states) for Reagan and 49 for Carter (representing 6 states and the District of Columbia).

Post-Presidency

The Carter Center

The Nobel Peace Prize

Bibliography

Why not the best?, Nashville : Broadman Press, 1977, 208 p. ISBN 0805455825
- Reed, with an introduction by Douglas Brinkley, Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 1996. 166 p. ISBN 1557284180
A Government as good as its people, New York : Simon and Schuster, 1977, 262 p. ISBN 0671228153
Keeping faith: memoirs of a President, Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, 1983, 622 p. ISBN 0553340174
Negotiation: The alternative to hostility, Macon, GA : Mercer University Press, 1984, 57 p. ISBN 086554137X
The blood of Abraham, Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1986, 263 p. ISBN 0395377226 (hard), ISBN 0395414989 (pbk.)
Everything to gain: Making the most of the rest of your life, New York ; Toronto : Random House, 1987, 198 p. ISBN 0394558588
An outdoor journal : adventures and reflections, Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, 1988, 275 p. ISBN 0553053019
Turning point : a candidate, a state, and a nation come of age, Thorndike, Me. : Thorndike Press, 1993, 297 p. ISBN 1560547723
Talking peace: A vision for the next generation, New York : Dutton Children's Books, 1995, 206 p. ISBN 0525455175
Always a reckoning, and other poems (illustrated by Sarah Elizabeth Chuldenko), New York : Times Books, 1995, 130 p. ISBN 0812924347
The little baby Snoogle-Fleejer (illustrated by Amy Carter), New York : Times Books, 1996. ISBN: 0812927311
Living Faith, New York : Times Books, 1996, 256 p. ISBN 0812927362
Sources of strength : meditations on scripture for a living faith, New York : Times Books, 1997. ISBN 0812929446 (hard) ISBN 067977453X (pbk)
The virtues of aging, New York : Ballantine Pub. Group, 1998, 140 p. ISBN 0345428269 (hard) ISBN 0345425928 (pbk)
An hour before daylight : memories of a rural boyhood, New York : Simon & Schuster, 2001. 284 p. ISBN 0743211936
Christmas in Plains : memories (illustrated by Amy Carter), New York : Simon & Schuster, 2001. 155 p. ISBN 0743224914
The Nobel Peace Prize lecture : delivered in Oslo on the 10th of December, 2002, New York : Simon & Schuster, 2002, 20 p. ISBN 0743250680
The hornet's nest : a novel of the Revolutionary War, Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2004, 904 p. ISBN 0786261544
Sharing good times, Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2005, 237 p. ISBN 0786274123'
Our endangered values : America's moral crisis, New York : Simon & Schuster, 2005. ISBN 9780743284578 ISBN 0743284577