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Michael Beschloss and Jonathan Alter to Discuss Carter鈥檚 Life and Legacy 12/10
Press Release 路 Thursday, December 3, 2020

Washington, DC

Join us Thursday, December 10, at 7 PM ET, as Presidential historian Michael Beschloss joins historian Jonathan Alter to discuss Alter鈥檚 new book: His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life. . on the 威尼斯人娱乐场 YouTube channel.

In His Very Best, award-winning historian Jonathan Alter tells the 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鈥攔idiculed and later revered鈥攚ith a piercing intelligence, prickly intensity, and biting wit beneath the patented smile.

Jonathan Alter is an award-winning author, political analyst, documentary filmmaker, columnist, television producer and radio host. He is the author of three New York Times bestsellers:  The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies, The Promise: President Obama, Year One鈥� and The Defining Moment: FDR鈥檚 Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope. Since 1996, he has been a contributing correspondent and political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. In 2019, he co-produced and co-directed the HBO documentary, 鈥淏reslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists,鈥� winning the 2020 Emmy for Best Historical Documentary.

Michael R. Beschloss is the author of nine books on presidential history, including, most recently, the New York Times bestsellers Presidential Courage and The Conquerors, as well as two volumes on Lyndon Johnson's White House tapes. He was also editor of the number-one global bestseller Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy. He is the NBC News Presidential Historian and a PBS NewsHour contributor and has received an Emmy and six honorary degrees. He is on Twitter at @BeschlossDC.

Related online resources:

• , 1/20/1977 - 1/20/1981
• , Public Program with Stuart Eizenstat, Carter鈥檚 Chief Domestic Policy Advisor.