Special Events at the Jimmy Carter Library & Museum
The Museum of the Jimmy Carter Library provides a unique experience for the
visitor. Through displays of room settings, objects, documents, photographs,
audio, and video, visitors can acquire a close-up view of the modern American
Presidency.
Changing exhibits are drawn from the library and museum collections or are
based on themes relating to the presidency and American political history.
Many of these are traveling exhibitions from the Smithsonian Institution,
other Presidential Libraries, and other museums around the world.
If you would like to be notified about upcoming exhibits, book signings, lectures or presentations, click here.
CURRENT SCHEDULE:
"Industrial Scars: The Photography of J Henry Fair" - EXHIBIT
Saturday, July 14 through October 14, 2012
Carter Presidential Library & Museum
Free with Paid Admission to the Museum
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Industrial Scars is an aesthetic look at some of our most egregious injuries to the system that sustains us in hopes that the viewer will come away with an innate understanding of her complicity and a will to make a difference. Photographer J Henry Fair shows the effects of industrialization
and pollution on the earth in this stunning series of photographs.
"At first I photographed "ugly" things; which is, in essence, throwing the issue in people's faces," Fair said. "Over time, I began to photograph all these things with an eye to making them both beautiful and frightening simultaneously."
This exhibition will change the way you think about the way we live.
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Larry Berman
"Zumwalt: The Life and Times of Admiral Elmo Russell "Bud" Zumwalt, Jr."
Reading / Book Signing
Tuesday, October 9, 2012 6:30pm (7:00pm talk)
Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater
Free and Open to the Public
Co-Sponsored by the Society of Georgia Archivists in celebration of American Archives Month and Georgia Archives Month
Co-Sponsored by the Georgia Humanities Council
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"Zumwalt" is a compelling portrait of the controversial admiral widely regarded as the founder of the modern Navy, implementing major strategic innovations that endure to this day, especially in his campaign against racism and sexism throughout the fleet-a portrait of leadership
that is essential for our time. Author Larry Berman is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, and is Founding Dean of the Honors College at Georgia State University. He is the author of four previous books on Vietnam, including Planning a Tragedy: The Americanization
of the War in Vietnam and Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent.
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Ira Shapiro
"The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis"
Reading / Book Signing
Monday, October 15, 2012 at 7:00pm
Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater
Free and Open to the Public
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Ira Shapiro spent 12 years working for Senators Gaylord Nelson, Abraham Ribicoff, Thomas Eagleton, Robert Byrd, and Jay Rockefeller. The Last Great Senate is his vivid portrait of the statesmen who helped steer America during the crisis years of the late 1970s, transcending partisanship and
overcoming procedural roadblocks that have all but strangled the Senate since their departure. The Christian Science Monitor calls The Last Great Senate "A first-hand, blow-by-blow account of the personalities and issues that animated the Senate during the Carter Administration. There is something
surprisingly thrilling about it all…. There is no mistaking that the Senate operated differently 30 years ago than it did today and Shapiro persuasively shows that most of that change has been for the worse.
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Patricia Cornwell
"The Bone Bed"
Reading / Book Signing
Friday, October 19, 2012 7:00pm
Carter Center Day Chapel
Free and Open to the Public
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A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea why. But as events unfold with alarming speed, Scarpetta begins to suspect that the paleontologist’s disappearance is connected to a series of crimes much closer to home. The New York Times Book Review says “When it comes to the forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell.”
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David Holmes
"The Faiths of the Postwar Presidents"
Reading / Book Signing
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 7:00pm
Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater
Free and Open to the Public
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His new book, "THE FAITHS OF THE POSTWAR PRESIDENTS", David Holmes takes an in-depth look at the role of faith in the lives of the twelve presidents who served after World War II. Holmes examines not only the beliefs professed by each president, but how those beliefs may have influenced
policy decisions on controversial issues. With national interest in the faiths of presidents as strong as ever, Holmes adds a rich and colorful work into this important national topic.
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Jon Meacham
"Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power"
Reading/Book Signing
Monday, November 19, 2012 at 7:00pm
Carter Center Day Chapel
TICKETS REQUIRED
TICKETING DETAILS COMING SOON
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THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT...TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT ACAPPELLA BOOKS & WILL INCLUDE A COPY OF THE BOOK. DETAILS COMING SOON.
"This terrific book allows us to see the political genius of Thomas Jefferson better than we have ever seen it before. In these endlessly fascinating pages, Jefferson emerges with such vitality that it seems as if he might still be alive today."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals.
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Kevin Phillips
"1775: A Good Year for a Revolution"
Reading / Book Signing
Friday, November 30, 2012 at 7:00pm
Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater
Free and Open to the Public
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Phillips, who has been a political and economic commentator for four decades, now turns his analytical skills to the tumultuous year of 1775, upending conventional wisdom in a new book that is bound to spark debate. In "1775: A GOOD YEAR FOR REVOLUTION", Phillips explains why 1776 is not the
watershed year of the American Revolution. Phillips argues that mythology has elevated 1776 in an unusual case of historical hype and confusion (much of it in the 19th century). The most important year, but least recognized and explained, is 1775: the critical launching point of both the war
and American independence, the year when the American commitment to revolution took shape.
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Tom Allen
"Dangerous Convictions: What's Really Wrong with the U.S. Congress"
Reading / Book Signing
Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 7:00pm
Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater
Free and Open to the Public
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In Dangerous Convictions, former Democratic Congressman Tom Allen, explains how beneath the surface of our political debates, the incompatible world views of the two parties have turned Congress into a dysfunctional body. "Years of listening to what seemed to me to be preposterous arguments in committee, on the House floor, or in private conversations," he writes, "changed my mind about our capacity to find bipartisan agreement on the most fundamental topics."
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Frye Gaillard
"The Books That Mattered: A Reader's Memoir.."
Lecture / Book Signing
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 7:00pm
Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater
Free and Open to the Public
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Award-winning author and journalist Frye Gaillard discusses and signs his new reading memoir, The Books That Mattered. It deals with the many books -- fiction and non-fiction -- that have shaped his life and influenced his thinking. Gaillard blends memoir, history and critical analysis to explore the works of Harper Lee, Anne Frank, James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren, John Steinbeck, Dee Brown, Alex Haley, Rick Bragg, Pat Conroy, Sena Jeter Naslund, Annie Proulx, Laura Hillenbrand, Geraldine Brooks, William Styron, and others.
Joining Gaillard is Sena Jeter Naslund, whose work is featured in Frye's book.
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BOOK NOOK AND GARDEN SAFARI WILL RESUME IN JUNE 2013
Preschool Visitors Monday
Carter Presidential Library & Museum Lobby
Book Nook: 10:00-10:30am
Garden Safari: 10:30am
Free and Open to the Public
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On select Mondays, Jimmy Carter Library staff and volunteers will read from a selection of story books in our library and conduct
an outdoor Garden Safari. Story time will be offered in the museum lobby, at the colorful bean bag seating area by the Book Nook sign.
Themes we will include are the presidency, leadership, growing up, roles adults play, etc. Simple language and colorful illustrations are included in every book.
Colorful beanbag chairs are available to sit in.
Best for ages 2-5.
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****We record some of our author lectures at the Carter Library and, in partnership with public broadcasting atlanta, have them put
on the web. If you want to see any of our lectures or lectures at other facilities, go to the Atlanta Forum Network's website...
Here are some of our lectures...
Lectures
The Museum is open from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from noon to 4:45 p.m. on.
Sunday. Admission is $8.00 - Adults; $6.00 - Seniors (60+), Military, and students with IDs; Free -
Children (16 and under). Parking - Free. The Museum is closed Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's
Day. For more information, please call 404-865-7101.
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441 Freedom Parkway
Atlanta, Georgia 30307-1498
Telephone: (404) 865-7100
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