Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Candidate from the South
2. It's Going to Happen
3. Mini-Juggernaut
4. The Carters Take New York
5. Jimmy, and Rosalynn, Won
6. The Shadow Presidency
7. A Different Presidency
8. Matters of Style
9. One Hundred Days
10. Rosalynn Steps Out
11. A Rising Tide
12. Quest for Justice: Panama, Israel, Iran
13. Revolutionaries
14. The Perils of Political Courage
15. The Tightrope to Peace
16. Quiet Path to Camp David
17. Miracle at Camp David
18. Life after Camp David
19. Carter's Coup: China
20. Khomeini, Bella, and Rosalynn
21. A White House Signing
22. Dangerous Rhetoric and a Harmless Rabbit
23. SALT II, Enemies, and Allies
24. Crisis of Confidence
25. Kennedys and Terrorists
26. In the Name of God, Iran!
27. The Soviet Union Makes a Move
28. Hostages and Politics
29. Delta Force
30. Keeping Faith
31. An Uphill Battle
32. A Surprise in October
33. The Agony of Defeat
34. Welcome Home
35. When Carter Ruled the World
36. The Carter Center
37. Humanitarians Adrift
38. Navigating Troubled Waters
39. Servant of Peace
40. Tyrants, Books, and Mr. Earl
41. The Nobel Prize
42. Tuned to the World
43. Endangered Values and Palestine Apartheid
44. "Cootie Man" Among the Elders
45. Journey into Eternity
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the Author

E. Stanly Godbold, Jr. is Professor Emeritus of History at Mississippi State University and the author of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: The Georgia Years, 1924-1974. He served as consultant and commentator for the PBS American Experience documentary on the life of Jimmy Carter. He lives in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi.

Reviews

Although the Carters are the rare presidential couple to admit and value the wife's role in her husband's success, E. Stanly Godbold, Jr. is the first to document how extensively Rosalynn figured in Jimmy's presidency and in the remarkable accomplishments of his post-presidency. Even readers who think they know the Carter record well will find much to savor in this captivating, carefully researched account.
*Betty Boyd Caroli, author of Lady Bird and Lyndon: The Hidden Story of a Marriage that Made a President*

The second volume of this wonderful, deeply researched, and eminently fair dual biography of the Carters invaluably illuminates their remarkable presidency, post-presidency, and partnership.
*Laura Kalman, University of California, Santa Barbara*

E. Stanly Godbold's exhaustively researched account of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, beginning with his unlikely campaign for the presidency, explores their personal and their political lives, capturing the sometimes-awkward balance between Jimmy Carter's deep moral compass and his fierce political ambition. No other study of the 39th President has more fully explored the critical role of his wife, Rosalynn, whose ability to capture the mood of Main Street Americans made her an invaluable partner in his presidency and in the years after he left the White House.
*Dan Carter, University of South Carolina*

Jimmy Carter, now our oldest former president, is also the president with the longest marriage in US history. Throughout their lives together, Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter have been hard working and sincere. They have been devoted to idealistic ambitions—and each other. E. Stanly Godbold, Jr. explores their relationship and its consequences for the nation and the world. His book will hold an important place in the collection of new volumes that revisit and revise the controversial and complicated Carter legacy.
*Robert A. Strong, author of Working in the World: Jimmy Carter and the Making of American Foreign Policy*

Impressively researched and clearly presented, this biography does not ignore Carter's occasional missteps and ideological inconsistency, but the thrust is distinctly revisionist. In essence: the Carters were good for the US.
*Choice*