Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope

Цена 51.58 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9781410402707

Автор

Издатель Thorndike Press

Страниц 411

Год выпуска 2007

This is the story of President Jimmy Carter"s post-presidency, the most admired and productive in the nation"s history. Through The Carter Center, which he and Rosalynn Carter founded in 1982, he has fought neglected diseases, waged peace in war zones, and built hope among some of the most forgotten and needy people in the world. Serving in more than seventy nations, Carter has led peacekeeping efforts for Ethiopia, North Korea, Haiti, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Uganda, and Sudan. With his colleagues from The Carter Center, he has monitored more than sixty-five elections in troubled nations, from Palestine to Indonesia. Carter"s bold initiatives, undertaken with dedicated colleagues, have eliminated, prevented, or cured an array of diseases that have been characterized as "neglected" by the World Health Organization and that afflict tens of millions of people unnecessarily. The Carter Center has taught millions of African families how to increase...