A Full Life by Jimmy Carter | Summary & Analysis: Reflections at Ninety

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A Full Life by Jimmy Carter | Summary & Analysis

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As he was turning 90, Jimmy Carter decided it was a good time to write a book about his life. He has written previous books about specific times or events, from life on his childhood farm to his four years as president. This latest memoir spans his youth, his naval career, his years as an agricultural businessman, as a local and national politician, and, finally, his later life as a peace activist and humanitarian. A Full Life combines these recollections with Carter’s heartfelt poetry and homespun paintings, which also chronicle his life and the people in it.

Carter’s parents, James Earl Carter Sr. and Lillian Carter, first lived in Plains, Georgia. They were close to their next door neighbors, the Smiths, who, in 1927, had a baby girl named Rosalynn when Jimmy was a toddler. A year later, the Carters moved to a farm nearby in tiny Archery, Georgia…

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• Summary of book

• Introduction to the Important People in the book

• Analysis of the Themes and Author’s Style

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 27, 2015
• ISBN: 9781943427567

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As he was turning 90, Jimmy Carter decided it was a good time to write a book about his life. He has written previous books about specific times or events, from life on his childhood farm to his four years as president. This latest memoir spans his youth, his naval career, his years as an agricultural businessman, as a local and national politician, and, finally, his later life as a peace activist and humanitarian. A Full Life combines these recollections with Carter’s heartfelt poetry and homespun paintings, which also chronicle his life and the people in it.

Carter’s parents, James Earl Carter Sr. and Lillian Carter, first lived in Plains, Georgia. They were close to their next door neighbors, the Smiths, who, in 1927, had a baby girl named Rosalynn when Jimmy was a toddler. A year later, the Carters moved to a farm nearby in tiny Archery, Georgia. Their home, built from a Sears Roebuck kit, had no running water and no electricity until 1939. The farm was fairly self-sufficient, producing corn, lumber, peanuts, wool, dairy products, and cotton. Carter was the only boy among three kids until his brother Billy arrived in 1936. Carter idolized his father, who seemed able to do or fix anything.

All but one of the neighboring families were black. Carter played and explored with the neighborhood boys, never questioning the separateness of the races. The most admired man in Archery was a black bishop at the African Methodist Episcopal Church who traveled widely and had a chauffeur. Yet, when he came to see Earl, he did not use the front door because Earl believed that the white race was