Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President.
by Carter, Jimmy
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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About This Item
New York: Bantam Books, 1982. First edition of the 39th President of the United States' memoirs. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by President Carter to former four-term United States Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen on a Presidential bookplate affixed to the front free endpaper, "To Lloyd Bentsen J. Carter." The recipient, Lloyd Millard Bentsen, ran as the Democratic Party nominee for vice president in 1988 on the Michael Dukakis ticket and served as the the 69th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Bill Clinton. As a primary architect of the Clinton economic plan, Bentsen contributed to a $500 billion reduction in the deficit, launching the longest period of economic growth since World War II. More than 5 million new jobs were created during his tenure as Secretary. Bentsen was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jimmy Carters memoirs of life in the White House. "Seldom has a presidential memoir been so self-revealing" (Wall Street Journal).
Synopsis
Keeping Faith (1999) is a novel by bestselling author Jodi Picoult about a custody battle involving a seven-year-old girl who may be seeing God.
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- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 119599
- Title
- Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President.
- Author
- Carter, Jimmy
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- Jimmy Carter First Edition Signed, Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President First Edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography and Autobiography;
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