Tue 2/2 @ 7PM
The blurb for the new book by historian/journalist/author/filmmaker Jonathan Alter, titled His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life, it refers to Carter as “perhaps the most misunderstood president in American history.”
The superficial take is that Carter was a bad president, way over his head, but a kind, compassionate man of deep faith whose post-presidential life has been generous and exemplary. But is that the whole story? Not according to Alter, who has also written about presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Barack Obama. After five years of access to Carter and his family, as well as to archival materials, he writes to put Carter in the context of his times.
“Carter is the only American president who essentially lived in three centuries: his early life on the farm in the 1920s without electricity or running water might as well have been in the nineteenth; his presidency put him at the center of major events in the twentieth; and his efforts on conflict resolution and global health set him on the cutting edge of the challenges of the twenty-first,” says the book’s promotion.
Learn more when Alter presents an author talk on Zoo, through the Hudson Library and historical Society. It’s free but you must register to get the meeting code. Go here to register. Copies of the book are available through Hudson’s Learned Owl Book Shop.
96 Library Street, Hudson, OH 44236