Easton Press: SIGNED: JIMMY CARTER: TURNING POINT: GEORGIA GOVERNOR: PRESIDENT

Description: Easton Press leather edition of Jimmy Carter's "Turning Point: A Candidate a State, and a Nation Come of Age," a COLLECTOR'S edition, one of the SIGNED FIRST EDITION series, Personally SIGNED by JIMMY CARTER, published in 1992. Bound in burgundy leather, the book has camel tan moire silk leaves, satin book marker, hubbed spine, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, gold gilding on three edges---in near condition. James Earl Carter Jr., who was born in 1924 and is living on October 1, 2024, is an American former politician who served as the 39th president of the U.S. from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975 and as a Georgia state senator from 1963 to 1967. Born and raised in PLAINS, GEORGIA, Carter graduated from the UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY in 1946 and joined the U.S. Navy, serving on numerous submarines. Following his graduation, Carter married Rosalynn in the Plains Methodist Church, and they became parents to three sons and a daughter, Amy. After the death of his father in 1953, he left his naval career and returned home to Plains, where he assumed control of his family's peanut-growing business. Carter wrote: "I resigned my naval commission over the almost violent opposition of my wife. Rosalynn and I, with our growing family, had spent the first seven years of our marriage being transferred from one place to another." When Jimmy Carter returned to Georgia, he inherited comparatively little due to his father's forgiveness of debts and the division of the estate amongst himself and his siblings. Nevertheless, his ambition to expand and grow the family's peanut farm was fulfilled. Carter greatly admired his father and after he came home, he soon followed in his father’s political footsteps. Living in Georgia in the 1950s, Carter opposed racial segregation and supported the growing civil rights movement. He became an activist within the Democratic Party. In 1955, he was selected by a grand jury to fill a vacancy on the county school board. It was the very seat his father once held for many years. On the board, Carter also took up the school consolidation issue his father once led. In 1962, The Americus Times-Recorder endorsed Carter over Moore for the primary election. Editor James R. Blair concluded, “Jimmy Carter is the man of for the job,” lauding Carter’s “educational background, business and agricultural experience and his past service to this community.” Furthermore, he praised Carter for “his courage of conviction” and his willingness to do “what he considered right” even when facing “strong opposition among his own people.” These early assessments aged well. But why did Carter run for the Georgia Senate? Why did he run that year? In his writings, Carter mentioned several reasons. I’ll identify a few of them here. One reason was opportunity. Carter explained that in 1962, under pressure from the federal courts, each of the state’s 54 senate districts were redrawn and apportioned more equally in terms of population by the General Assembly and election outcomes would be decided exclusively by winning a majority of the popular vote. Carter said this made a senate run “attractive” to political newcomers like himself. Carter also liked the idea that Georgia’s state legislature was a part-time body typically limited to a “number of working days each year during January, February, and March.” Such a short annual session, he reasoned, would have minimal impact on his business because it occurred during a “least demanding” period of the year. In 1962, he believed it was his time to follow his father to the state capitol in Atlanta. To win, Carter overcame election irregularities and fraud in the initial vote through the courts. At first a political newcomer and then a political outsider, Carter took on corrupt politics and won convincingly. In January 1963, Carter was sworn into office by Lt. Governor Peter Zack Geer and was given committee assignments on agriculture, education, highways, and defense and veterans affairs. In March 1966, Carter, forty-one-year-old ran for the U.S. Congress, challenging incumbent Republican, Howard “Bo” Callaway. Despite being a dark-horse candidate who was generally unknown outside of Georgia, he won the 1976 Democratic nomination and narrowly defeated incumbent Republican president GERALD FORD. His post-presidential activities have been viewed more favorably than his presidency. In 1982, Carter established the CARTER CENTER to promote and expand human rights. In 2002, he was awarded the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE for his work in co-founding the center. He has traveled extensively to conduct peace negotiations, monitor elections, and advance disease prevention and eradication in developing nations. The Carter family is well known for their work as volunteers with Habitat for Humanity, a Georgia-based philanthropy that helps low-income working people around the world to build and buy their own homes and access clean water. His hobbies include painting, fly-fishing, woodworking, cycling, tennis, and skiing. From a young age, Carter showed a deep commitment to Christianity. In 1942, Carter became a deacon and taught Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia. In 2000, Carter severed his membership with the Southern Baptist Convention, saying the group's doctrines did not align with his Christian beliefs, while still a member of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. In 2007, together with former President Clinton, he founded the New Baptist Covenant organization for social justice. As president, Carter prayed several times a day, and professed that Jesus was the driving force in his life. At 100 years old and with a 44-year-long retirement, Carter is both the oldest living and longest-lived president, as well as the one with the longest post-presidency, and his 76-year-long marriage makes him the longest married president. 223 pages, including an index. I offer Combined shipping.

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