Jimmy Carter: The Last Interview

<b>“We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes—and we must.” —Jimmy Carter</b><br><br>James Earl Carter Jr. came from a background of farming and military service to forge an unlikely political career, first as governor of Georgia, and then as the 39th president of the United States.<br><br>The interviews collected here—four of them never published in book form before—span the arc of Carter’s long career as a politician, a public servant, and a citizen diplomat. They range from an early joust with conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr. to his final interview, a moving joint conversation with his wife Rosalynn on the occasion of their 75th wedding anniversary … and, of course, it includes the notorious 1976 <i>Playboy</i> interview wherein Carter remarked that he had “committed adultery in my heart many times.”<br><br>The result is a fascinating look into the mind and soul of one of our most admirable and principled presidents ever.