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Article: Jimmy Carter's life in progress.('Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope' and 'Prophet from Plains: Jimmy Carter and His Legacy')(Book review)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- February 8, 2008
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BEYOND THE WHITE HOUSE: WAGING PEACE, FIGHTING DISEASE, BUILDING HOPE By Jimmy Carter Simon and Schuster, 272 pages, $29.99
PROPHET FROM PLAINS: JIMMY CARTER AND HIS LEGACY By Frye Gaillard University of Georgia Press, 128 pages, $19.95
Historian Douglas Brinkley ended his 1999 book The Unfinished Presidency, about Jimmy Carter's post-White House years, by quoting from the poet Dylan Thomas. "Do not go gentle into that good night,/Old age should burn and rave at close of day ..." Mr. Brinkley believed these lines described Jimmy Carter, whose lifelong sense of calling have spurred the former chief executive to continued public service on a global scale.