Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President

NY: Bantam, 1982. Hardcover_cloth. Collectible - Near Fine/VeryGood. 6.25"x9.25" 622 indexed pages. Navy cloth boards w/gilt letters to spine. Book design by Barbara N. Cohen. Official White House photo by Jack e. Kightlinger. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Scratches to back DJ, edge wear w/few small chips and tears. Keeping Faith is Jimmy Carter's account of the satisfaction, frustration, and solitude that attend the man in the Oval Office. Mr. Carter writes candidly about the crises that confronted him during his tenure as President of the United States and Leader of the free world, from 1977 to 1981.
"The President who cared" details his anguish over the hostage crisis in Iran, his triumph against all odds at Camp David, his secret communications with China's Deng Xiaoping, and his dramatic and revealing encounters with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, and other world leaders. Mr. Carter also shares glimpses of his private world - his feelings of being an outsider in Washington, his relationship with Rosalynn, his pain about the attacks on his frien... Source: Publisher.