Beyond the White House, Jimmy Carter
Beyond the White House, Jimmy Carter
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Beyond the White House
Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope

Author: Jimmy Carter

Narrator: Jimmy Carter

Abridged: 6 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/02/2007


Synopsis

The president’s personal and passionate account of his twenty-five years in the service of humanitarian effort that won him the Nobel Peace Prize was received with the admiring respect of reviewers and readers and it will stand as the record of his brilliant post-presidential career.

This is the story of President Jimmy Carter’s post-presidency, the most admired and productive in the nation’s history. Through The Carter Center, which he and Rosalynn Carter founded in 1982, he has fought neglected diseases, waged peace in war zones, and built hope among some of the most forgotten and needy people in the world.

Serving in more than seventy nations, Carter has led peacekeeping efforts for Ethiopia, North Korea, Haiti, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Uganda, and Sudan. With his colleagues from The Carter Center, he has monitored more than sixty-five elections in troubled nations, from Palestine to Indonesia.

Carter’s bold initiatives, undertaken with dedicated colleagues, have eliminated, prevented, or cured an array of diseases that have been characterized as “neglected” by the World Health Organization and that afflict tens of millions of people unnecessarily. The Carter Center has taught millions of African families how to increase the production of food grains, and Rosalynn Carter has led a vigorous war against the stigma of mental illness around the world.

“Immersing ourselves among these deprived and suffering people has been a great blessing as it stretched our minds and hearts,” Jimmy Carter writes. “The principles of The Carter Center have been the same ones that should characterize our nation, or any individual. They are the beliefs inherent in all the great world religions, including commitments to peace, justice, freedom, humility, forgiveness or an attempt to find accommodation with potential foes, generosity, human rights or fair treatment of others, protection of the environment, and the alleviation of suffering. This is our agenda for the future.”

About Jimmy Carter

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 NinetyA 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. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Hannah on March 09, 2025

I feel like this was a good companion to his later book A Full Life. I'm not all that interested in foreign policy, so I have to admit I didn't really pay much attention to those sections. It was enough to know that he got the Nobel Peace Prize for all the effort he put into bringing out about peace......more

Goodreads review by Ron on January 30, 2023

I am impressed of the contributions Jimmy Carter made after he left the Presidency. He has done more than any other President has after leaving office. Worth reading.......more

Goodreads review by Michael on October 11, 2011

A good read. While it took me a while to get over the name-dropping and general comfort Carter has with speaking about and celebrating his own accomplishments, once I got past it I found myself respecting the guy more and more. The Carter Center's work eradicating tropical diseases is particularly i......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on November 25, 2009

Ex-Presidents enjoy many privileges and "Beyond the White House" demonstrates that one of them is getting mediocre books published. "Beyond the White House," has the feel of many loose-ends, however interesting and worthy of recounting, carelessly stitched together. There is no narrative to speak of......more