Jimmy Carter was the thirty-ninth President of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981. In 1982, he and his wife founded The Carter Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of people around the world. Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, and was the author of thirty books, including A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety; A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power; An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood; and Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis. He died in 2024 at the age of 100.
"Our Endangered Values cannot be safely ignored." -- The Wall
Street Journal
"Carter has come to the defense of our national values. We need a
voice from the not-so-distant past, and this quiet voice strikes
just the right notes." -- Garry Wills, The New York Review of
Books
"Carter offers an unusual combination: a man of faith and a man of
power....By adding his own voice to the discussion, Carter reminds
us of a time when religion was tied to such virtues as humility and
such practices as soul-searching...he is undoubtedly one of our
finest human beings." -- Alan Wolfe, The Washington Post Book
World
"The prolific former president writes eloquently about how his
faith has shaped his moral vision." -- The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
"Our Endangered Values cannot be safely ignored."
-- The Wall Street Journal
"Carter has come to the defense of our national values. We need a
voice from the not-so-distant past, and this quiet voice strikes
just the right notes."
-- Garry Wills, The New York Review of Books
"Carter offers an unusual combination: a man of faith and a man of
power....By adding his own voice to the discussion, Carter reminds
us of a time when religion was tied to such virtues as humility and
such practices as soul-searching...he is undoubtedly one of our
finest human beings."
-- Alan Wolfe, The Washington Post Book World
"The prolific former president writes eloquently about how his
faith has shaped his moral vision."
-- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
After several books on spirituality and homespun values (most recently Sharing Good Times), President Carter turns his attention to the political arena. He is gravely concerned by recent trends in conservatism, many of which, he argues, stem from the religious right's openly political agenda. Criticizing Christian fundamentalists for their "rigidity, domination and exclusion," he suggests that their open hostility toward a range of sinners (including homosexuals and the federal judiciary) runs counter to America's legacy of democratic freedom. Carter speaks eloquently of how his own faith has shaped his moral vision and of how he has struggled to reconcile his own values with the Southern Baptist church's transformation under increasingly conservative leadership. He also makes resonant connections between religion and political activism, as when he points out that the Lord's Prayer is a call for "an end to political and economic injustice within worldly regimes." Too much of the book, however, is a scattershot catalogue of standard liberal gripes against the current administration. Throwing in everything from human rights abuses at Abu Ghraib to global warming, Carter spreads himself too thin over talking points that have already been covered extensively. Agent, Lynn Nesbit. (Nov.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
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