#1681: Jonathan Alter “His Very Best” | The Book Show

October 06, 2020 00:27:28
#1681: Jonathan Alter “His Very Best” | The Book Show
The Book Show
#1681: Jonathan Alter “His Very Best” | The Book Show

Oct 06 2020 | 00:27:28

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Show Notes

On this week’s Book Show, Journalist Jonathan Alter discusses his new book His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life. This is the first full-length biography of Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the United States and Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian.  

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