Jimmy Carter Moves to FSG For Next Book

Posted on September 29, 2009

Former president Jimmy Carter has moved publishing houses. Carter has signed with Farrar, Straus and Giroux for his next book. His last book, We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land, was published by Simon and Schuster. Publisher's Weekly reports:

John Sterling acquired world rights to the book--it's the former president's White House diaries--which FSG plans to publish in October 2010. Agent Lynn Nesbit brokered the deal and FSG described the book as a truncated version of the diary entries Carter made while he was Commander-in-Chief, from 1977 through 1981.
The one-time peanut farmer kept a lengthy record of his time in office--his diaries span more than 5,000 pages--and the entire collection of notes is currently available in the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum. The annotated version, which will include photographs, will, per FSG, "offer comments on what happened and why."

Carter has turned out to be a very prolific ex-president. FSG is hoping for bi sales of the diaries which publisher Jonathan Galassi calls "an unprecedented and unique contribution to the history of the presidency."