Jimmy Carter Library & Museum

Jim Wallis is a bestselling author, public theologian, speaker, preacher, and international commentator on religion, public life, faith, and politics. He is president and CEO of Sojourners, where he is editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine, and the author of previous books, including God's ... (more)Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It and The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America. In the pages of Rediscovering Values, Wallis provides us with a moral compass for this new economy -- one that will guide us on Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street. Co-sponsored by The Georgia Center for the Book, http://www.georgiacenterforthebook.or...

Nationally known economist and former Republican strategist Phillips makes a return appearance to talk about his new book, Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism. It’s a far-reaching, cautionary analysis of the interaction of politics and money ... (more)by the author of such important best-sellers as American Theocracy, The Emerging Republican Majority, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy.

Pare spent a decade documenting Soviet modernism architecture. An exhibit of his work has been displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as in Russia, Greece and is scheduled to go to Spain and London. This event is co-sponsored by Lumiere Gallery. Doors open at 6:30pm. Carter Presidential ... (more)Library & Museum Theater; Free and Open to the Public

As the Roaring Twenties' last celebratory peals rang through a nation about to slip into the Depression, Myrtle Bennett, a glamorous Kansas City housewife, killed her philandering husband over a bridge game. At her ballyhooed murder trial, her defense attorney was a two-time Democratic presidential candidate ... (more)and Pendergast Machine–man, James A. Reed. Merely the most famous man in Kansas City, Reed, a riveting orator, represented the likes of Henry Ford and oil companies. For Myrtle, he put on a dramatic courtroom show of logic, eloquence, and a few tears. Watching from New York was Ely Culbertson, a tuxedoed boulevardier with a Russian accent and a gorgeous American wife, Josephine, who was his bridge partner. As the P.T. Barnum of the game of bridge, Ely Culbertson offered trial commentary and used the Bennetts’ story to sell bridge, his instructional books, and himself. Housewives adored him and rushed to hear his lectures. A few months after the 1931 trial, when the Culbertsons won the Bridge Battle of the Century at the Waldorf-Astoria amid the glitter of New York’s high society and Hollywood newsreels, they became millionaire icons. Through these larger-than-life characters and the timeless partnership game they played, The Devil's Tickets evokes the last echoes of the Gay '20s and the darkness of the Depression. Ultimately it reveals a tension between husbands and wives that is eternal and that manifests itself at the bridge table—both then and now—in ways surprising and profound. Gary Pomerantz, author and journalist, wrote the critically acclaimed Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn, Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds, and Wilt, 1962. He serves as a lecturer in the Department of Communication at Stanford University. Pomerantz will read from, discuss and sign copies of The Devil's Tickets: A Night of Bridge, a Fatal Hand, and a New American Age beginning at 7 p.m. on Monday, June 22, in the Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater. The event is free and open to the public.

Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, South of Broad gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints. South of Broad is Pat Conroy at his finest; a long-awaited work from a great American writer whose passion for life and language knows no bounds. Carter Center's Day Chapel. Free ... (more)and Open to the Public.

Event is Free. Pomerantz tells the true story of glamorous Kansas City housewife Myrtle Bennett, who killed her philandering husband over a bridge game in 1929. Combine the favorite card game of proper intellectuals including Warren Buffett with a scandalous real-life murder and a cheating husband, and ... (more)you've got an irresistible summer read. (Pomerantz will start his presentation with a 13 minute video of actors portraying characters from the book) Pomerantz is a former AJC reporter and the author of "Where Peachtree meets Sweet Auburn" and "Wilt, 1962).

Lecture & Book Signing Carter Library Theater Free and Open to the Public A powerful photographic essay with text on the six major genocides of the 20th and 21st centuries: Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda and Darfur. More than a chronicle of dates and death tolls, it gives ... (more)a personal history of victims, perpetrators and consequences. With texts by Terry George, Dr. Richard Hovannisian, Amb. James Rosenthal, et. al.

Former Georgia Senator, and one of America’s finest patriots, shares a searing memoir of recovery and triumph on how he survived Vietnam, Walter Reed Hospital, and the politics of Karl Rove. Most of Cleland's animosity dates back to the 2002 re-election race, when Cleland was running for a second term. ... (more)He compares the GOP tactics used against him to what Republicans did to John McCain in the 2000 South Carolina presidential primary. As to the infamous TV ad the GOP ran against Cleland, which featured pictures of the senator alongside photos of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, Cleland called it a "new low in national politics" and an "absolute distortion of reality." Carter Center Day Chapel; free and open to the public.

Carter Presidential Library Theater Free and Open to the Public President Carter wrote the foreward to the book, giving personal anecdotes from his years of building with Habitat. The book's author, David Rubel, will also be at the book signing. If I Had a Hammer is an inspiring book for young ... (more)readers telling the story of how, for a quarter-century in over ninety countries, Habitat for Humanity has built homes with and for the people who need them, aided by more than a million multi-generational volunteers. Copies of If I Had a Hammer, along with books President Carter has written, will be available for purchase at the booksigning. President Carter will only be signing If I Had a Hammer and BOOKS he has written. For information call (404) 865-7109.

Carter Presidential Library Theater Free and Open to the Public Emmy award-winning journalist Lynne Joiner tells the tale of Service, an idealistic U.S. Foreign Service officer in wartime China who had the misfortune of often being right although U.S. policy makers refused to heed his prescient reporting. ... (more)He predicted Mao Tse-tung's successful revolution long before anyone else even knew the Chinese Communists were a potent force, and, subsequently, he became Sen. Joseph McCarthy's first victim. The author describes how Service was fired for doubtful loyalty--but won his job back in the U.S. Supreme Court, only to have his career neutralized by the FBI, anti-Communist politicians, the China lobby, and Chiang Kai-shek's secret police. Born and raised in China by YMCA missionaries, Service became America's key liaison with the Communist Chinese when Gen. Joseph Stilwell wanted their help against the Japanese. Later, he became a target of revenge for Nationalist Chinese, a convenient scapegoat for American politicians eager to advance their careers, and a person of interest to J. Edgar Hoover for more than a quarter century. Joiner was given special access to Service's private papers and photographs with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, among others, and gained access to FBI, CIA, and State Department security records as well as confidential transcripts of congressional hearings and federal loyalty review boards. Although newly released Soviet and U.S. documents demonstrate that some of his wartime associates were in fact identified as Communist spies or fellow travelers, Joiner shows that Service was an honorable survivor who was innocent of McCarthy's charges.

Carter Presidential Library Theater Free and Open to the Public Designated a "Global Leader for Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum, Zachary Karabell is bringing a profound and refreshingly optimistic outlook to a world economy in crisis. As President of Fred Alger and Company, he was the Portfolio ... (more)Manager of the China-US Growth Fund, which won both a Lipper Award for top performance and a 5-star designation from Morningstar. From his work on the fund Karabell began to identify the profound implications of converging economies between China and the United States, a phenomenon he and others have called "Chimerica." Considered the leading expert on the complicated relationship between China and the United States, Karabell's new and anticipated book Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World's Prosperity Depends on It will be published by Simon & Schuster in 2009.

Carter Presidential Library Theater Free and Open to the Public Michael Rosen, a community organizer, is the author of Turning Words, Spinning Worlds. He is a former real estate developer and investor, former CEO of a Wall Street firm, former CEO of a publicly traded company destroyed in the events ... (more)of September 11, 2001, and a former assistant professor at New York University. He lives in New York, and with his wife, Leslie Gruss, helps raise "the Rosen family extended. What Else But Home: Seven Boys and an American Journey Between the Projects and the Penthouse is a compelling story of one family's journey across the divide of race, class, and economic opportunity in America through love and baseball.