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Article: Jimmy Carter: American Moralist.
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- March 19, 1997
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By Kenneth E. Morris. University of Georgia Press, 397 pp., $29.95.
This revisionist biography (the first since 1980) of Jimmy Carter was years in the making and is the result of thousands of hours of research in the Carter Center Library and elsewhere, as the 54 pages of notes attest. The author's in-depth portrait of Carter is complimentary, corrective and critical.
Morris is quoted in Contemporary Authors as saying, "Although my craft is biography, loosely understood, my aim is the articulation and interpretation of significant social trends. Biography is merely the vehicle I (sometimes) travel in for this interpretation." The strongest sections ...