Book Club with Jonathan Alter — His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life
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About the Event:
CHF's December book club pick is His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life. Join us for a member-exclusive conversation with the book's author, the award-winning historian and journalist Jonathan Alter and CHF's Marilynn Thoma Artistic Director Alison Cuddy. There will be time at the end of the conversation for you to ask the author questions directly.
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- This event will take place on Zoom with a live Q+A.
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About the Book:
From one of America’s most-respected journalists and modern historians comes the first full-length biography of Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the United States and Nobel Prize–winning humanitarian. Jonathan Alter tells the epic story of an enigmatic man of faith and his improbable journey from barefoot boy to global icon. Alter paints an intimate and surprising portrait of the only president since Thomas Jefferson who can fairly be called a Renaissance Man, a complex figure—ridiculed and later revered—with a piercing intelligence, prickly intensity, and biting wit beneath the patented smile. Here is a moral exemplar for our times, a flawed but underrated president of decency and vision who was committed to telling the truth to the American people.
- The Chicago Humanities Festival is pleased to partner with the Seminary Co-op Bookstores, a not-for-profit bookstore whose mission is bookselling.
- When you purchase your copy of His Very Best from Seminary Co-op you are directly supporting independent bookselling in Chicago and a vital space for book browsing, discovery, and community.
Order your copy of His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life today!
Jonathan Alter
Journalist, Author
Jonathan Alter is an award-winning historian, columnist, and documentary filmmaker. An MSNBC political analyst and fo...
Alison Cuddy
Alison Cuddy is a Chicago-based writer and editor. She is the former host of the award-winning program Eight Forty-Ei...
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