His very best: Jimmy Carter, a life

Prologue : June 1979

Part one. Sources of strength: Daddy and hot ; The Carters and the Gordys ; Miss Julia ; Annapolis ; Rosalynn ; The rickover way

Part two. Georgia on his mind: The joiner ; "There's nothing I can do" ; Senator Carter ; The greasy pole ; Born again ; The code word campaign ; "He said whaaat?" ; Jungle Jimmy

Part three. Dark horse: Jimmy who? ; The long march ; Front-runner ; Grits and Fritz ; "Lust in my heart"

Part four. Outsider president: "Let's go!" ; The moral equivalent of war ; The steel magnolia ; His inner engineer ; "Bert, I'm proud of you"

Part five. Peacemaker: Human rights ; Panama Canal squeaker ; Camp David ; Recognizing China

Part six. Swamped: The fall of the Shah ; The "Malaise" speech ; Touching bottom ; Ready for Teddy? ; America held hostage ; Reheating the Cold War ; Disaster at Desert One ; Are you better off? ; Inaugural drama

Part seven. Global citizen: Exile ; The Carter Center ; Freelance Secretary of State ; Sunday school teacher.