American Experience: Jimmy Carter
from: PBS (Direct)
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0841887006521
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: PBS (Direct)
Manufacturer: PBS (Direct)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: PBS (Direct)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 07, 2006
Running Time: 180 minutes
Sales Rank: 50239
Studio: PBS (Direct)
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Description:
Jimmy Carter ran for president on a wave of post-Watergate disaffection with Washington politics. But inexperience, inflation, recession, and the Iran hostage crisis, derailed his presidency dramatically. His crowning achievement, the Camp David Accords, created a framework for Middle East peace, inspiring his life since. The film traces his ascent from Plains, Georgia, to the Oval Office and explores the role of religion in his career.
Amazon.com:
Years after his failed presidency, Jimmy Carter remains a fascinating bundle of contradictions. Arguably one of the most ineffectual of recent presidents, he has also achieved a stunningly effective post-presidential career as an international peace negotiator. In the first part of this 160-minute documentary, Carter shows equal parts humility and hubris as he starts his military career at Annapolis, meets Rosalynn, leaves the military to run the farm after his father's death, fails in his first gubernatorial bid, succeeds in his second, and is whisked into the White House. The second part follows the rapid disintegration of his presidency with the Bert Lance scandal and inflation, concluding with failed attempts to free the Iranian hostages. Linda Hunt narrates and an impressive series of public figures--Rosalynn and son Chip, former Press Secretary Jody Powell, Walter Mondale, even the disgraced Lance--add their two cents. Carter's acceptance of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize is noted in a printed postscript. --Kimberly Heinrichs
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- Outstanding piece of dynamic historical reflectionOf all the men who have been president of the United States, Jimmy Carter is clearly tied for first place in ... Read More
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