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Jimmy Carter Library and Museum

The Jimmy Carter Library and Museum is the only presidential library located in the Southeast. The facility features author lectures, educational programs, a full-size replica of the Oval Office and the Nobel Peace Prize. The presidential archives is a repository of approximately 27 million pages of Jimmy Carter's White House material, papers of administration associates, including documents, memoranda, correspondence, etc. There are also 1/2 million photographs, and hundreds of hours film, audio and video tape.

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  • The former Democratic vice presidential candidate and US Senator from North Carolina visits to discuss *Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives*, the new book he has edited about homes, "the values they rest on, the dreams they are filled with, and the people they have shaped." He currently directs the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at UNC-Chapel Hill.
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  • Veteran journalist Thomas Laird discusses his new book *The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama*. In telling the story of Tibet, the Dalai Lama is quoted describing his early life and recalling his first meeting with Mao Zedong. He also reflects on his years in exile and his hopes for Tibet to be freed from occupation. In a tenderly crafted study that is equal parts love letter, traditional history, and oral history, Laird chronicles the development of Tibet from its mythic origins to its takeover by Communist China in 1950. Weaving historical research with interviews with the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled leader, Laird offers insight into the triumphs and failures of the country.
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    Jimmy Carter Library and Museum
  • Jay E. Hakes discusses his book-in-progress, *The Quest for Energy Independence: From Nixon to Reagan*.
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  • Marion Creekmore presents insight into President Carter's intervention in the 1994 North Korea nuclear crisis, which averted a war and produced lessons for dealing with rogue regimes today. Dr. Creekmore is joined by former President Carter and former US Ambassador to South Korea James Laney in a revealing conversation about North Korea.
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  • Andrew Billingsley discusses his new book, *Yearning to Breathe Free*, the biography of Robert Smalls, a South Carolina slave who became a Civil War hero and US Congressman. Mae Gentry, Atlanta-Journal Constitution writer and expert on the African American experience, moderates.
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  • Curt Goering, senior deputy executive director of Amnesty International USA; and Karin Ryan, director of the Carter Center's Human Rights Program, examine prospects for reasserting US commitments on human rights. As part of an interactive audience discussion they address challenges for the Bush Administration, the new Congress, and the American people.
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  • A panel discusses the collapse of the Palestinian National Unity Government (NUG), following the takeover of Gaza by Hamas, which left the Palestinian territories in crisis. The United States and larger international community are contemplating a "West Bank First" strategy to bolster the position of President Abbas' Fatah party and the emergency government he assembled in the West Bank, which does not include any Hamas members. While some view this as a promising step forward in order to isolate Hamas, others warn that the strategy will further polarize the Palestinian people and result in greater violence in the future, undermining the confidence the Palestinian people have in a democratic process.
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    Jimmy Carter Library and Museum
  • Carter Center co-founders Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter discuss current peace and health initiatives at the humanitarian organization and reflect on past accomplishments. Moderated by Carter Center CEO Dr. John Hardman.
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  • Writer and environmentalist Paul Hawken discusses his new book, *Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming*, which explores the diversity of the environmental movement, its ideas, strategies, and hidden history, going back many centuries. This event is co-sponsored by the Jimmy Carter Library, A Cappella Books, and the Sustainability Initiative at Emory University
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  • Salman Rushdie reads from and discusses his new novel, *The Enchantress of Florence*.
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    Jimmy Carter Library and Museum